Chapter 3 - Health
                                 
Table 3.25 Number of War Pensions in payment by type of pension, as at 31 March each year
  1997   2000   2005 1   2006   2007   2008   2009   2010
TOTAL IN PAYMENT
 324 640   295 675   235 300   || 223 850   212 535   201 265   190 745   180 400
          -                      
Disablement pensioners
 264 595   240 760   191 750   || 182 800   173 850   165 165   157 125   148 945
                               
1914 war2
 140   30   ~   || ~   -   -   -   -
Inter-war3
 505   305   95   || 75   60   50   40   30
1939 war onwards4
 263 945   233 865   187 465   || 178 890   170 320   161 970   154 240   146 405
Civilian
 ..   2 940   2 090   || 1 945   1 805   1 680   1 550   1 390
Polish
 ..   1 605   980   || 865   755   675   595   510
Mercantile marine
 ..   1 805   1 115   || 1 005   895   785   700   605
Not known
 ..   205   5   || 15   10   ~   ~   ~
                                 
Other pensioners
 60 045   54 915   43 550   || 41 035   38 685   36 100   33 620   31 450
                                 
War widows pension5
 59 025   53 990   42 525   || 40 065   37 730   35 165   32 715   30 580
War widower pension5
 ..   5   55   || 60   65   70   70   75
War orphans pension6
 695   165   35   || 35   30   25   30   25
War parents pension7
 295   155   50   || 40   35   30   25   20
Adult dependant pension
 25   25   15   || 15   10   10   10   10
Unmarried dependant pension8
 ~   -   ~   || ~   ~   ~   ~   ~
Allowance for lowered standard of occupation only9
 ..   ..   460   || 435   410   420   400   390
Child allowance only10
 ..   575   405   || 400   400   380   370   350
Source: DASA(Health Information)
1.    The discontinuity betweeen 2005 and 2006 is due to improvements in data processing.
2.    Disabled because of Service between 4 August 1914 and 30 September 1921.
3.    Disabled because of Service between 1 October 1921 and 2 September 1939.
4.    Disabled because of Service from 3 September 1939 to date.
5.    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.
6.    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.
7.    Paid to a parent of a deceased Service person.
8.    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.
9.    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.
10.  A case where a child allowance is in payment for a child, is 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.