25-31  Number of Payments and Amounts of Subsidy Granted by Social Security Fund
Type 2001 2002 2003
No. of Amount No. of Amount No. of Amount
Payments (10 000MOP) Payments (10 000MOP) Payments (10 000MOP)
             
  Total   176647 22132 236351 34610 304068 53003
     Old Age Pension 77027 8845 87347 10033 98389 11301
     Disability Pension 7585 866 7594 867 7516 860
     Social Security Pension 58652 4373 56749 4240 53836 4024
     Special Payment 11666 1137 12328 1221 13003 1307
     Unemployment Subsidy 7719 1788 11563 2579 12554 2749
     Sickness Subsidy 1127 142 1249 158 1487 181
     Birth Subsidy 1947 195 1805 181 1900 190
     Marriage Subsidy 820 82 936 94 917 92
     Funeral Subsidy 346 45 459 60 500 65
  Payments for  7 153 5 52 5 182
     Pneumoconiosis
  Credit Advances to  601 1183 822 1476 450 809
     Worker of Financially
      Troubled Enterprise
  Aid given to the Unemployed 5812 1588 35847r 9995r 69207 20854
  Aid given to the Unemployed 254 71 - 3 - -
     Manufacturing and
     Construction Workers
Aid given to workers engaged 5748 277
     in industires with severe
     difficulties
Vocational training and 19460 3615 38556 10111
     professional improvement
     courses (4000 placements)
  Assistance to the Unemployed 3084 1733 187 36r - -
     According to Clause 3 of
     the Gambling Contract 
     revised on 23/07/97