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Thursday, March 15, 1973
NEW LEAFLET ON DISABILITY AND INFIRMITY ALLOWANCE SCHEME
The Social Welfare Department is stepping up its drive to publicise
the government's new disability and infirmity allowances which become
effective on April 1.
Forty thousand copies of a Chinese leaflet explaining the scheme
will be circulated in the next few days to SWD social security offices,
City District Offices and voluntary welfare agencies.
Applicants can claim the allowances by writing to the social
security field unit closest to where they live, and a home visit will
then be made to obtain full particulars.
With the opening this week of a Wong Tai Sin field unit, there
are now 18 social security offices in operation.
They are responsible for processing claims for both public assistance
and the new allowances for the severely disabled and edlerly infirm.
The Wong Tai Sin unit is being accommodated on a temporary basis
in ground floor premises at Block 13, Tung Tau resettlement estate. The unit's telephone numbers are 3-837318, 3-837462 and 3-837168.
It has taken over from the Tsz Wan Shan unit all cases from the
west side of Sha Tin Pass Road, covering the areas of Wong Tai Sin
resettlement and low-cost housing estate, Ping Yeung village, Chuk Yuen, Yan Oi
and Yan Yee.
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