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Charts

Chart 1. Illustration of the operation of the income test

Chart 2. Income support packages for selected single recipients, June 2008

Chart 3. Comparison of real rates of income growth over the past decade

Chart 4. Replacement rates – single allowee

Chart 5. Replacement rates – single pensioner

Chart 6. OECD – social assistance as a proportion of household income

Chart 7. OECD – retirement income systems net replacement rates for a worker on 50 per cent and 100 per cent of average earnings

Chart 8. Age Pension as a percentage of budget standards

Chart 9. Relative and real low income measures

Chart 10. Transfer reliant households: incidence of financial stress, 2006

Chart 11. International comparison of single–couple relativities

Chart 12. CPI and Age Pension Analytical Living Cost Index

Chart 13. Highly reliant income support recipients: value of bank accounts, 2005–06

Chart 14. Highly reliant households: components of final income, 2003–04

Chart 15. White Card clients: average expenditure, 2007–08

Chart 16. Proportion of the population aged 15 years and over on income support, 1901–2008

Chart 17. Real rates of selected pensions and allowances, 1970–2008

Chart 18. Australian Government expenditure on transfer payments, 1910–2008

Chart 19. Main income support payments by gender, June 2007

Chart 20. Levels and rates of receipt of income support by age and gender, June 2008

Chart 21. Age specific rates of receipt to age 65, June 1997 and June 2007

Chart 22. Disability Support Pensioners by medical category

Chart 23. Medical condition of carees of Carer Allowance recipients

Chart 24. Employment of income support recipients, 2005–06

Chart 25. Private weekly income by income support payment type, September 2007

Chart 26. Cumulative private income by income support payment, September 2007

Chart 27. Total income of Age Pensioners as a proportion of pension, September 2007

Chart 28. Income support recipients by net household wealth, 2005–06

Chart 29. Transfer reliant households: distribution of net wealth, 2005–06

Chart 30. Transfer reliant households: composition of wealth, 2005–06

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