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severely disabled are entitled to this allowance which is disregarded when assessing entitlement
to Public Assistance.
According to a sample survey of PA recipient: in 1977 only 7.2% of 44 6 member families on PA received $800 - 900. The average PA payment to a family of this size was $525.00. It should be noted that 70.5% of all PA cases were singletons. Only 24% of PA families had one or more wage earners (average 1.24), while 76% had no wage earners, being mostly elderly people, or widows with young childre
Although social changes and environmental factors are exerting some pressure on the family unit, family ties are still relatively strong and the indications are that in an extended family, incomes and expenses are still usually shared. It is therefore considered appropriate to continue to
take total household income into account for the
purpose of assessing, public assistance in normal cases. Under the existing scheme, however, married children under the same roof can be considered as a
separate household, if there is evidence that they do not share income and expenditure.
(k): The proposals of the Hong Kong Training Counci to become a statutory body with rowers to impose a general training levy are supported (peras. 39 - 41 of the Rerort)
The Hong Kong Training Council's
recommendations that it should become a statutory body with powers to impose a general training levy were submitted to the Government on 18 March.
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