DPB stats - I was wrong

I predicted that in December 2010 the DPB stats might reach an all-time high in absolute numbers. The December quarter benefit statistics are just out and I was wrong. The DPB only rose to 113,000. (In December 1997 the total reached 114,799.)


Over the year to December 2010, the number of recipients of a main benefit increased by 7,000, or 2 percent.

Over the year to December 2010, the number of Domestic Purposes Benefit recipients increased by 4,000, or 3 percent.

Over the year to December 2010, the number of Sickness Benefit recipients increased by 1,000, or 1 percent.

Over the year to December 2010, the number of recipients of an Unemployment Benefit increased by 1,000, or 1 percent