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Table 9 Mapping of benefit variables

From: Using the EU-SILC to model the impact of the economic crisis on inequality

Social protection benefit

No. of Recipients (2010) – 1000’s

Modelled benefit

EU-SILC benefit

State pension (Contributory)

280.4

State pension (Contributory & transitory)

Old age benefits

State pension (Transitory)

10.2

State pension (Non-contributory)

97.2

State pension (Non-contributory)

Widow(er)’s contributory pension

114.6

Widow(er)’s contributory pension

Survivor’s benefits

Widow(er)’s non-contributory pension

2.0

Widow(er)’s non-contributory pension

Deserted wife’s benefit

8.4

Deserted wife’s benefit/allowance

Family benefits

Deserted wife’s allowance

0.5

One parent family allowance

92.3

One parent family allowance

Maternity benefit

23.5

Maternity benefit

Child benefit

591.4

Child benefit

Other child related benefits

1.5

n/a

Family income supplement

28.2

Family income supplement

Illness benefit

81.3

Illness benefit

Sickness benefits

Invalidity pension

50.8

Invalidity pension

Disability benefits

Blind pension

1.5

Injury benefit

0.8

Disablement pension

13.7

Disability allowance

101.1

Disability allowance

Carer’s benefit

1.6

Carer’s benefit/allowance

Carer’s allowance

50.6

Other illness benefits

0.9

n/a

Jobseeker’s benefit

123.5

Jobseeker’s benefit

Unemployment benefits

Jobseekers’s allowance

261.9

Jobseeker’s allowance

Farm assist

10.7

Supplementary welfare allowance

37.4

Pre-retirement allowance

6.0

Pre-retirement allowance

Back to work allowances

9.0

Back to work/education Allowances

Back to education allowance

21.1

 
  1. Source: Department of Social Protection Social Welfare Statistics 2010.