Welfare benefits – labour and reception of benefits, 2009-2013

Attachment to the labour market for recipients of selected welfare benefits (per cent)
	2006-2010	2009-2013	Change
¹Long term recipients of sickness benefit are persons who received sickness benefit for 180 days or more during a period. The «sickness benefit period» is the five-year period preceding the states shown in this table.
²Working is defined as having calculated work hours during one year more than zero. Covers only regular employees.
³For recipients of work assessment allowance the first period is 2010-2014
Long term sickness benefit recipients in the sickness benefit period with no work during the next five years¹²	23.6	20.8	-2.8
Recipients of disability benefit who worked the following year²	17.2	17.3	0.1
Recipients of economic sosial benefit with more than 0 working hours during the period²	36.0	34.6	-1.5
Recipients of work assessment allowance (AAP) who worked one year after exit from AAP²³		47.8

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