Food Stress in Adelaide: The Relationship between Low Income and the Affordability of Healthy Food

Table 1

Australian government welfare benefit payments^a (as of May 2009) per fortnight according to family type.

Typical family	Single-parent family	Elderly retired pensioner	Single adult
$1253.50	$975.88	$569.80	$453.30

aAustralian government welfare benefit payments are paid to people who are either unemployed and looking for work, on disability payments, retired from employment, unemployed single-parent families, on sickness allowance, or on carer’s allowance.
Note: data extracted from Department of Human Services—Centrelink site at: http://www.centrelink.gov.au/.