however nearly half of all recipients had spells of other types of incomesupport benefits during the year observation period though this includes receipt of newstart allowance australias unemployment benefit tseng wilkins show that up to onethird of the australian workingage population touches on at least one of various incomesupport benefits in a given year onesixth of all recipients continuously receive support over the same year period tseng vu wilkins find that churning is a typical feature of incomesupport receipt with over half of all recipients leaving and reentering benefits at least once over a fiveyear period