SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1981
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$35M PAID UNDER +NO FAULT TRAFFIC ACCIDENT PLAN
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THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT HAS PAID OUT ABOUT $35 MILLION AS QUICK CASH RELIEF TO 8 598 CASES UNDER THE +NO FAULT+ TRAFFIC ACCIDENT VICTIMS ASSISTANCE (TAVA) SCHEME.
MR SIU KING-CHIU, HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT'S TAVA SECTION, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY) A SUM OF $474 300 AUTHORISED FOR PAYMENT TO 195 CASES NOW AWAITS COLLECTION.
GRANTS ALREADY MADE WERE PAID TO 779 CASES INVOLVING DEATH, AND TO 7 819 CASES INVOLVING INJURIES WHICH HAD CAUSED AT LEAST SEVEN DAYS' LOSS OF EARNING CAPACITY.
PAYMENTS FOR DEATH GRANTS AMOUNTED TO $6.1 MILLION, WHILE PAYMENTS FOR INJURY TOTALLED $28.6 MILLION, OF WHICH $7.4 MILLION WERE PAID AS FURTHER GRANTS TO THOSE WHO SUBSEQUENTLY REQUIRED EXTENDED SICK LEAVE.
THE HIGHEST PAYMENT SO FAR WAS $26 100 IN ONE FATAL CASE, WHILE OTHER PAYMENTS RANGED FROM $800 TO $25 040.
+AT PRESENT, 309 APPLICATIONS ARE BEING PROCESSED AND THE APPLICANTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO RECEIVE PAYMENTS SHORTLY, MR SIU SAID.
THE TAVA SCHEME IS NON-MEANS TESTED AND PROVIDES QUICK CASH RELIEF FOR TRAFFIC ACCIDENT VICTIMS OR THE IR DEPENDANTS REGARDLESS OF WHO IS AT FAULT IN CAUSING THE ACCIDENT.
UNDER THE SCHEME, INTRODUCED IN MAY 1979, TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS MUST HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO THE POLICE.
PEOPLE INVOLVED CAN APPLY WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF THE ACCIDENT AT THE DEPARTMENT'S TAVA SECTION ON THE 14TH FLOOR, WORLD TRADE CENTRE, AT 280 GLOUCESTER ROAD, HONG KONG (TEL. NOS. 5-779421 AND 5-7903650).