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Newstart Mature Age Allowance assists older long-term unemployed people facing difficulties obtaining work.

At 1 June 2001, the local government area of Break O'Day had 7.2 Mature Age Newstart recipients per 1,000 persons. Tasmania recorded a rate of 2.7 recipients per 1,000 persons.

RECIPIENTS OF NEWSTART MATURE AGE ALLOWANCE, Tasmanian local government areas(a)(b) - 1 June 2001
		Recipients		Estimated resident population - as at 30 June 2001(c)
Local government area		no.	crude rate(d) (per 1,000 persons)	no.	median age
Greater Hobart-Southern
	Brighton	30	2.3	12,915	29
	Central Highlands	9	4.1	2,316	39
	Clarence	102	2.1	49,594	38
	Derwent Valley	37	4.0	9,373	36
	Glamorgan/Spring Bay	22	5.6	3,989	45
	Glenorchy	123	2.8	44,003	37
	Hobart	60	1.3	47,446	36
	Huon Valley	30	2.1	13,846	36
	Kingborough	53	1.8	29,379	37
	Sorell	38	3.4	11,004	36
	Southern Midlands	6	1.1	5,730	36
	Tasman	-	-	2,259	42
	Total	512	2.2	231,854	37
Northern
	Break O'Day	41	7.2	5,781	43
	Dorset	16	2.2	7,339	37
	Flinders	-	-	887	43
	George Town	25	3.8	6,491	36
	Launceston	167	2.7	62,335	36
	Meander Valley	59	3.3	18,066	36
	Northern Midlands	41	3.5	11,926	37
	West Tamar	82	4.1	20,290	38
	Total	432	3.2	133,115	37
Mersey-Lyell
	Burnie	71	3.8	18,886	36
	Central Coast	62	3.0	21,029	38
	Circular Head	10	1.3	8,047	34
	Devonport	81	3.3	24,257	38
	Kentish	28	5.1	5,499	36
	King Island	-	-	1,724	38
	Latrobe	36	4.3	8,241	38
	Waratah/Wynyard	46	3.4	13,627	37
	West Coast	15	2.7	5,516	33
	Total	349	3.3	106,826	37
Tasmania		1,293	2.7	471,795	37
- nil or rounded to zero (a) Data have been aggregated to local government areas from postcode data supplied by Centrelink. Consequently, some figures have been rounded. (b) Small area data in this table has been confidentialised. Totals for Tasmania may differ to those published in Statistics - Tasmania. (c) Source: ABS data available on request, Population by Age and Sex. (d) This is a crude rate only. It has not been adjusted to take into account the population eligible to receive payment. Therefore, care should be taken when interpreting figures. Source: Centrelink.