Municipal social services 2012
A total of 7,736 households received municipal income support in 2012, an increase by 21 (0.3%) from the year before. That is a trend break from the years before. From the year 2007 to 2011 the average increase was 860 households a year. Households of single men without children (43.0%) and households of single women with children (27.1%) were as before the biggest groups receiving income support. In the year 2012 nearly half of recipients of municipal income support were unemployed and thereof nearly two third non-insured.
