The Unit is now processing all benefit and vendor payments.

Moreover, total benefit payments have recently outgrown the contributions to the Fund.

Cash benefit payments followed the trends indicated below between 1998 and 2003

like payments that benefit big agribusiness, while helping drive family farms off a cliff.

The National Child Benefit Supplement is considered unearned income and deducted from social assistance payments.

Figure 15 Number of periodic benefit payments made and number of staff involved, 1985 to 2005

When contributions are larger than benefit payments, short term mismanagement of investments may not always be detrimental.

Child benefit payments made directly to the mother had more than doubled in real terms since 1997.

Figure 3 United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund evolution of income and benefit payments (Billions of United States dollars)

This makes benefit payments inherently risky, hence the concern of the Board to explore opportunities for eliminating avoidable losses.

The Administration noted that this outstanding overpayment represented 0.006 per cent of total benefit payments made between 1983 and 1993.

Relying on ever higher taxes to fund payments to an outsized population of benefit recipients is a recipe for exporting prosperity elsewhere.

(a) Increasing number of periodic benefit payments made per annum (annual average increase of 2.8 per cent) over the past five years.

Contribution payments would generally be made to the insolvency representative administering the insolvent estate for the benefit of the estate as a whole.

Alimony Payments

Disbursements payments

Less payments

Overtime payments

When contributions can no longer cover benefit payments, investment income and capital returns will have much bigger implications for achieving the Fund's mission of going forward.

At the end of March 1991, 503 needy persons received income related benefit payments in the form of cash issues varying from 16.20 to 33.20 per week.

Recovery of payments

Ex gratia payments

Ex gratia payments

B. Compensatory payments

(ii) Payments Unit

(i) Separation payments

RETROACTIVITY OF PAYMENTS

B. Compensation payments

Less Payments received

Less Payments received

Ex gratia payments

The current F3 claim concerns certain payments made by the National Committee, after the liberation of Kuwait, into trust funds for the benefit of some of the detainees.

48. At the end of March 1993, 420 needy persons received income related benefit payments in the form of cash issues varying from 17.05 to 35 per week.

At the same time the maternity benefit is not received by those mothers who do not work and who do not make compulsory social insurance contribution payments in 2000 only 47 of all mothers who had given a birth received a maternity benefit.

(u) Ex gratia payments

(m) Ex gratia payments

Advance and progress payments

(a) Payments to suppliers

(l) Ex gratia payments

B. Compensation payments 583

Payments received (2 044.9)

Payments Unit P 3

(Payments and deliveries received)

Payments for petroleum products

Payments to troop contributing