25-30  Number of Payments and Amounts of Subsidy Granted by Social Security Fund
  2002 2003 2004
Type No. of Amount No. of Amount No. of Amount
  Payments (10 000MOP) Payments (10 000MOP) Payments (10 000MOP)
             
  Total   236351 34610 304068 53003 283311 45302
     Old Age Pension 87347 10033 98389 11301 110359 12677
     Disability Pension 7594 867 7516 860 8019 915
     Social Security Pension 56749 4240 53836 4024 50973 3802
     Special Payment 12328 1221 13003 1307 13824 1413
     Unemployment Subsidy 11563 2579 12554 2749 6964 1529
     Sickness Subsidy 1249 158 1487 181 1825 232
     Birth Subsidy 1805 181 1900 190 1840 184
     Marriage Subsidy 936 94 917 92 1243 124
     Funeral Subsidy 459 60 500 65 514 67
  Payments for  5 52 5 182 4 195
     Pneumoconiosis            
  Credit Advances to  822 1476 450 809 249 852
     Worker of Financially            
      Troubled Enterprise            
  Aid given to the Unemployed 35847 9995 69207 20854 42147 5284
  Aid given to the Unemployed            
     Manufacturing and            
     Construction Workers - 3 - - 136 36
Aid given to workers engaged            
     in industires with severe            
     difficulties     5748 277 503 85
Vocational training and            
     professional improvement            
     courses (4000 placements) 19460 3615 38556 10111 12717 3769
             
Other 187 36 - - 31994 14139