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Carer Allowance helps parents or carers to care for disabled children and adults at home. A person may get Carer Allowance if the child or adult needs a lot of additional care or attention in his or her own home. Assistance may be in the form of a fortnightly payment and/or a Health Care Card. Carer allowance may be paid in addition to Carer Payment or other payments such as the Age Pension.

As at 1 June 2001, recipients of Carer Allowance were most likely to be found in Brighton and Central Highlands. Both of these local government areas recorded rates of 21.7 recipients per 1,000 persons.

RECIPIENTS OF CARER 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	280	21.7	12,915	29
	Central Highlands	50	21.7	2,316	39
	Clarence	784	15.8	49,594	38
	Derwent Valley	170	18.2	9,373	36
	Glamorgan/Spring Bay	57	14.2	3,989	45
	Glenorchy	874	19.9	44,003	37
	Hobart	360	7.6	47,446	36
	Huon Valley	203	14.7	13,846	36
	Kingborough	282	9.6	29,379	37
	Sorell	178	16.2	11,004	36
	Southern Midlands	103	18.0	5,730	36
	Tasman	28	12.4	2,259	42
	Total	3,369	14.5	231,854	37
Northern
	Break O'Day	110	18.9	5,781	43
	Dorset	95	12.9	7,339	37
	Flinders	7	7.9	887	43
	George Town	105	16.1	6,491	36
	Launceston	984	15.8	62,335	36
	Meander Valley	220	12.2	18,066	36
	Northern Midlands	169	14.1	11,926	37
	West Tamar	277	13.6	20,290	38
	Total	1,965	14.8	133,115	37
Mersey-Lyell
	Burnie	265	14.0	18,886	36
	Central Coast	255	12.1	21,029	38
	Circular Head	59	7.4	8,047	34
	Devonport	409	16.9	24,257	38
	Kentish	63	11.5	5,499	36
	King Island	8	4.6	1,724	38
	Latrobe	105	12.8	8,241	38
	Waratah/Wynyard	200	14.7	13,627	37
	West Coast	60	10.9	5,516	33
	Total	1,426	13.4	106,826	37
Tasmania		6,761	14.3	471,795	37
(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.