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Child Care Benefit helps with the cost of child care for:
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- outside school hours care.
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The Benefit can be paid directly to child care services to reduce the fees charged, or as a lump sum to parents in October following the previous financial year. It is subject to an income test but is not subject to an assets test.
As at 1 June 2001, the highest rates of Child Care Benefit recipients were in the local government areas of Sorell (42.3 per 1,000 persons) and Kingborough (40.2 per 1,000 persons).
RECIPIENTS OF CHILD CARE BENEFIT, Tasmanian local government areas(a)(b) - 1 June 2001 |
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as at 30 June 2001(c) |
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Local government area |
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crude rate(d)
(per 1,000 persons)
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no.
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median age
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Greater Hobart-Southern | | | | |
| Brighton | 458 | 35.5 | 12,915 | 29 |
| Central Highlands | 67 | 28.9 | 2,316 | 39 |
| Clarence | 1,618 | 32.6 | 49,594 | 38 |
| Derwent Valley | 223 | 23.8 | 9,373 | 36 |
| Glamorgan/Spring Bay | 68 | 17.1 | 3,989 | 45 |
| Glenorchy | 1,386 | 31.5 | 44,003 | 37 |
| Hobart | 1,480 | 31.2 | 47,446 | 36 |
| Huon Valley | 425 | 30.7 | 13,846 | 36 |
| Kingborough | 1,182 | 40.2 | 29,379 | 37 |
| Sorell | 466 | 42.3 | 11,004 | 36 |
| Southern Midlands | 112 | 19.6 | 5,730 | 36 |
| Tasman | 33 | 14.6 | 2,259 | 42 |
| Total | 7,519 | 32.4 | 231,854 | 37 |
Northern | | | | |
| Break O'Day | 121 | 20.9 | 5,781 | 43 |
| Dorset | 80 | 10.9 | 7,339 | 37 |
| Flinders | - | - | 887 | 43 |
| George Town | 161 | 24.9 | 6,491 | 36 |
| Launceston | 1,847 | 29.6 | 62,335 | 36 |
| Meander Valley | 422 | 23.4 | 18,066 | 36 |
| Northern Midlands | 272 | 22.8 | 11,926 | 37 |
| West Tamar | 602 | 29.7 | 20,290 | 38 |
| Total | 3,507 | 26.3 | 133,115 | 37 |
Mersey-Lyell | | | | |
| Burnie | 522 | 27.6 | 18,886 | 36 |
| Central Coast | 647 | 30.8 | 21,029 | 38 |
| Circular Head | 287 | 35.7 | 8,047 | 34 |
| Devonport | 896 | 37.0 | 24,257 | 38 |
| Kentish | 88 | 16.0 | 5,499 | 36 |
| King Island | 57 | 33.1 | 1,724 | 38 |
| Latrobe | 202 | 24.5 | 8,241 | 38 |
| Waratah/Wynyard | 416 | 30.6 | 13,627 | 37 |
| West Coast | 31 | 5.7 | 5,516 | 33 |
| Total | 3,148 | 29.5 | 106,826 | 37 |
Tasmania |
14,173
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30.0
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471,795
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37
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- nil or rounded to zero
(a) Data have been aggregated to local government areas from postcode data supplied by Centrelink. Consequently, some figures have been rounded.
(b) Small area data in this table has been confidentialised. Totals for Tasmania may differ to those published in Statistics - Tasmania.
(c) Source: ABS data available on request, Population by Age and Sex.
(d) This is a crude rate only. It has not been adjusted to take into account the population eligible to receive payment. Therefore, care should be taken when interpreting figures.
Source: Centrelink. |
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