Hon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development and Employment): The benefit statistics for the December quarter were recently released. The quarterly release shows a year-on-year fall of around 21,300 people receiving a main benefit in the December 2021 quarter. The number of working-age people receiving a main benefit, as at the end of December 2021, was 5.5 percent lower when compared to the December 2020 quarter. Benefit numbers as a proportion of the working-age population decreased to 11.7 percent, from 12.4 percent as at the end of December 2020. And the number of working-age people on jobseeker support decreased by 11.5 percent when compared to the December 2020 quarter. The 2021 December quarter was the highest number of exits into work for a December quarter since electronic records began in 1996.