24-30    Number of Payments and Amounts Granted by Social Security Fund
  1999 2000 2001
Type No. of Amount No. of Amount No. of Amount
  Payments (10 000MOP) Payments (10 000MOP) Payments (10 000MOP)
             
  Total  157889 14716 163363 20191 176647 22132
     Old Age Pension 60775 5889 66558 7643 77027 8845
     Disability Pension 8213 796 7930 907 7585 866
     Social Security Pension 64772 3864 59923 4450 58652 4373
     Special Allowance 9926 786 10842 1038 11666 1137
     Unemployment Allowance 8581 1706 7950 1787 7719 1788
     Illness Allowance 616 88 708 97 1127 142
     Maternity Allowance 2201 223 2032 205 1947 195
     Marriage Allowance 926 93 794 79 820 82
     Funeral Allowance 264 34 326 42 346 45
  Payments for  
     Pneumoconiosis 3 70 5 147 7 153
  Guarantee of Liabilities
     Resulted from Work
       Relation 123 579 276 597 601 1183
  Subsidy to the Unemployed   
     as Stipulated in the Third
     Clause of the Revision of
     Gambling Contract
      of 23/07/97 1489 590 6019 3198 3084 1733
  Subsidy to the Unemployed 5812 1588
  Subsidy to the Unemployed
     Construction Workers 254 71