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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Saturday, September 9, 1972

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE SCHEME CONTINUES TO EXPAND

The total number of active cases in the Public Assistance Scheme

reached 16,207 at the end of August.

New applications received during the month numbered 943, including 60 referred from voluntary agencies. A total of 110 cases was reactivated in August, and at the same time, 632 cases were closed.

Cash payments during the month totalled $2,479,334 bringing to $23,736,883 the grand total spent so far since the expanded Scheme was implemented on

April 1, 1971.

Commenting on these figures, Mr. Tsau Tsor-yan, Senior Principal Social Welfare Officer and head of the Public Assistance Division, says: "They suggest that the Scheme is widely known, and that people for whom it is intended are

coming forward.

"If one takes into account the individuals who have been helped to stand on their own feet again, and who are accordingly no longer beneficiaries, the grand total is about 22,290."

To cope with these numbers, 15 field units have been set up in various districts, and the 16th, to serve the Castle Peak area, is being planned and is

expected to be opened in October.

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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191