• Table of contents
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Preface
• Summary
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Context and challenges
• 3. Adequacy
• 4. Indexation
• 5. Payment design and administration
• 6. Concessions and services
• 7. Sustainability and targeting
• Appendix A: Number of pensioners
• Appendix B: Pension payments as at 1 January 2009
• Appendix C: Supplementary entitlements available in the income support system, January 2009
• Appendix D: One-off lump-sum payments provided since 2004–05
• Appendix E: Superannuation modelling
• Appendix F: Data sources and notes
• References
• Tables and Charts

Budget 2009-10 - Pension Review Report

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Appendix A: Number of pensioners

Recipients of pension payments and concessions, 2008

Payments	Male	Female	Total
Age Pension	882,700	1,187,600	2,070,300
Disability Support Pension	417,200	325,500	742,700
Carer Payment	43,500	92,300	135,800
Wife Pension	0	29,600	29,600
Widow B Pension	0	700	700
Bereavement Allowance	100	500	600
DVA Service Pension	103,900	92,200	196,100
DVA Income Support Supplement	100	81,400	81,500
Total	1,447,500	1,809,800	3,257,300
Commonwealth Seniors Health Card	135,900	148,400	284,300
Low-Income Health Care Card	166,000	199,500	365,500
DVA Disability Pension and War Widow	na	na	261,700

Note: Age Pension numbers include DVA Age Pensioners (around 5,900). In addition there were 443,800 Carer Allowance recipients at December 2008.

na = not available

Sources: Pension customer numbers derived from Centrelink administrative database, fortnight ending 5 December 2008. DVA customer data is at 2 January 2009 and will be published in the upcoming DVA Pensioner Summary Statistics series. Commonwealth Seniors Health Card and Low-Income Health Care Card customer numbers derived from the Centrelink administrative database, fortnight ending 19 December 2008.

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