Caribbean Labour Statistics
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Total payments (local currency) made by type of benefit, Bahamas
 
Type of benefit 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Sickness benefit 5,845,794 5,526,768 5,478,765 5,454,336 5,118,037 5,445,885 4,926,943 4,575,453
Maternity benefit 3,329,809 3,438,220 3,464,269 3,560,093 3,327,963 3,603,052 3,517,948 3,639,085
Funeral benefit 1,106,013 1,030,850 957,429 937,646 845,135 842,843 699,485 653,950
Sickness assistance 24,568 25,279 24,671 29,113 39,283 26,899 37,687 19,404
Maternity grant 698,156 686,900 668,500 725,250 669,750 748,000 725,250 740,350
Old age non contrib. pension 8,380,921 8,622,163 9,475,957 10,038,176 10,860,297 11,179,481 9,744,741 7,456,126
Retirement benefit 27,199,168 25,140,857 23,559,096 21,731,057 20,027,353 18,158,152 14,449,857 10,348,813
Survivors' benefit 5,420,103 5,104,789 5,041,485 4,796,386 4,460,866 4,244,304 3,326,492 2,114,338
Invalidity benefit 4,442,281 4,004,440 3,605,791 3,258,047 2,880,735 2,500,009 1,735,944 1,139,875
Survivors' assistance 1,699,742 1,564,511 1,570,035 1,527,610 1,390,681 1,322,914 1,009,245 750,952
Invalidity assistance 5,188,948 4,934,508 4,825,348 4,675,974 4,431,073 4,112,255 3,152,872 2,233,917
Medicare 2,953,287 3,136,740 2,320,699 2,456,913 2,085,432 2,058,451 1,455,716 771,998
Injury benefit 873,680 707,833 613,390 564,115 509,330 475,841 468,086 398,579
Disablement benefit 2,652,987 937,173 822,683 727,742 679,431 564,710 331,428 224,710
Industrial death 439,606 213,358 221,620 221,112 215,813 199,831 198,962 156,908
Industrial funeral 0 1,000 0 0 0 0 0 0
Disablement grant 0 937,173 48,700 36,500 29,000 6,700 5,600 500
Disablement grant with benefit 35,700 0 0 0 0 22,393 31,140 8,400
Total 70,290,763 66,012,562 62,698,438 60,740,070 57,570,179 55,511,720 45,817,396 35,233,358

Source: The National Insurance Board, The Bahamas, several years

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Created July 1999 by SJ; Last updated May 2000 by LM.