Monday, July 02, 2012

Moving from welfare to Super

The latest Statistical Report from MSD has just been released.

I'm reading through it looking for interesting titbits. 

Here's one.

In the financial year to June 2011 there were 48,307 Super grants made. 16 percent were transfers from another benefit. A further 4.6 percent were to people who had been on a benefit within the last 4 years.

One in five. Sort of reminiscent of the one in five on welfare by the end of their birth year...

2 comments:

Will de Cleene said...

My Mum was one of those stats a couple of years ago. Super, ACC and social welfare is part of the same enchilada.

Lindsay Mitchell said...

It was an on- the- cuff comment Will. Different factors are in play at the different extremes age-wise. Naturally more working age people will be on some sort of incapacity support nearing 65.