Chapter 3 - Health
                                 
Table 3.21 Number of War Pensions in payment by type of pension, as at 31 March each year
  1995 1 1997   2004   2005     2006 2 2007   2008   2009
TOTAL IN PAYMENT
 309 840   324 640   247 525 || 235 300   || 223 850   212 535   201 265   190 745
                                 
Disablement pensioners
 260 295   264 595   201 970 || 191 750   || 182 800   173 850   165 165   157 125
                                 
1914 war3
 475   140   ~   ~   || ~   -   -   -
Inter-war4
 ..   505   125   95   || 75   60   50   40
1939 war onwards5
 259 825   263 945   197 285 || 187 465   || 178 890   170 320   161 970   154 240
Civilian
 ..   ..   2 235   2 090   || 1 945   1 805   1 680   1 550
Polish
 ..   ..   1 080   980   || 865   755   675   595
Mercantile marine
 ..   ..   1 230   1 115   || 1 005   895   785   700
Not known
 ..   ..   15   5   || 15   10   ~   ~
                                 
Other pensioners
 49 545   60 045   45 555 || 43 550   || 41 035   38 685   36 100   33 620
                                 
War widows pension6
 48 405   59 025   44 995   42 525   || 40 065   37 730   35 165   32 715
War widower pension6
 ..   ..   40   55   || 60   65   70   70
War orphans pension7
 835   695   40   35   || 35   30   25   30
War parents pension8
 305   295   60   50   || 40   35   30   25
Adult dependant pension
 ..   25   20   15   || 15   10   10   10
Unmarried dependant pension9
 ..   ~   ~   ~   || ~   ~   ~   ~
Allowance for lowered standard of occupation only
 ..   ..   ..   460 11 || 435   410   420   400
Child allowance only10
 ..   ..   400   405   || 400   400   380   370
Source: DASA(Health Information)
1.   Data are not available for 1990.
2.   The discontinuity betweeen 2005 and 2006 is due to improvements in data processing.
3.   Disabled because of Service between 4 August 1914 and 30 September 1921.
4.   Disabled because of Service between 1 October 1921 and 2 September 1939.
5.   Disabled because of Service from 3 September 1939 to date.
6.   Paid to the spouse of an ex-Service person whose death was in service or related to disablement because of service from 4 August 1914 to date.
7.   Paid to: (i) the child of a deceased Service person who has no surviving parent; (ii) a child whose mother was divorced from a serviceman at the time of
      death; or (iii) a child who is not in the care of the surviving parent.
8.   Paid to a parent of a deceased Service person.
9.   Paid to a partner who lived with the ex-Serviceman for at least six months before his enlistment, was maintained by him, and who has borne his child.
10. A case where a Child Allowance is in payment for a child, where one parent has died, and either the surviving parent does not qualify for a War
      Widows/Widowers Pension, because of remarriage or cohabitation, or the child does not live with the surviving parent.
11. A number of pensioners receive an Allowance for Lower Standard of Occupation, but do not receive an ongoing war pension. Some, but not all, of these
      were formerly classified as disablement pensioners.