Chapter 3 - Health
                                     
Table 3.25 Number of War Pensions in payment by type of pension, as at 31 March each year
 
2000   2005   1 2006   2007   2008   2009   2010   2011  
TOTAL IN PAYMENT   295 675   235 300   || 223 850   212 535   201 265   190 745   180 400   170 910  
 
Disablement pensioners   240 760   191 750   || 182 800   173 850   165 165   157 125   148 945   141 715  
1914 war2   30   ~   || ~   -   -   -   -   -  
Inter-war3   305   95   || 75   60   50   40   30   25  
1939 war onwards4   233 865   187 465   || 178 890   170 320   161 970   154 240   146 405   139 450  
Civilian   2 940   2 090   || 1 945   1 805   1 680   1 550   1 390   1 275  
Polish   1 605   980   || 865   755   675   595   510   440  
Mercantile marine   1 805   1 115   || 1 005   895   785   700   605   525  
Not known   205   5   || 15   10   ~   ~   ~   -  
 
Other pensioners   54 915   43 550   || 41 035   38 685   36 100   33 620   31 450   29 195  
 
War widows pension5   53 990   42 525   || 40 065   37 730   35 165   32 715   30 580   28 350  
War widower pension5   5   55   || 60   65   70   70   75   75  
War orphans pension6   165   35   || 35   30   25   30   25   25  
War parents pension7   155   50   || 40   35   30   25   20   20  
Adult dependant pension   25   15   || 15   10   10   10   10   ~  
Unmarried dependant pension8   -   ~   || ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~  
Allowance for lowered standard of occupation only9   ..   460   || 435   410   420   400   390   380  
Child allowance only10   575   405   || 400   400   380   370   350   340  
 
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.