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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 4 - 6 member families on FA received $800 - 900. The average PA payment to a family of this size was $525.00. It should be note that 70.5% of all FA cases were singletons.
Only
24% of PA families had one or more wage earners (average 1.24), while 76% had no wage earners, bei mostly elderly people, or widows with young childr
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 totul 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 Counc to become a statutory Lody with rovers to in ore a general training levy ire supported (paras. 39 41 of the Report)
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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