Provincial long-term care allowance
At the end of 2009, a total of 68 070 people received a long-term
care allowance on the basis of the care allowance acts of the Laender
In 2009, a total of just under 60% of provincial long-term care allowance beneficiaries lived in three federal provinces: Vienna (22%), Lower Austria (19%) and Styria (16%). The distribution by gender reveals that 66% of beneficiaries were female. In terms of the age structure, the beneficiaries of a provincial long-term care allowance were on average younger than those persons receiving a federal care allowance: in 2009 just 38% fell into the age group below 40 years of age, while the share of recipients above 60 years was 46%. A further difference to the federal long-term care allowance is that, pro-rata, greater numbers of provincial care allowance beneficiaries fall within the higher allowance levels than the lower levels. At the end of 2009, 28% of recipients drew a provincial long-term care allowance at levels 4 to 7.
Expenditure on the provincial long-term care allowance in 2009
was approximately €362 million (10.7% against the previous year and
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