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A total of 6,910 households received municipal income support in 2010, an increase by 916 (15.3%) from the year before and by 1,881 (37.4%) from the year 2008. Households of single men without children (43.6%) and households of single women with children (27.1%) were as before the biggest groups receiving income support. In households receiving income support in the year 2010 there were 11,468 individuals or 3.6% of inhabitants in the country, thereof were 3,974 children (17 years of age or younger) or 5% of all children in the country. |