Friday, February 15, 1974
ALLOWANCE
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE SPECIAL ALLOWANCES TO BE INCREASED
The Social Welfare Department will increase from April 1 this
year the special allowances paid to certain people drawing public assistance.
The allowances are to help with the expense of medically approved
extra diet and certain other expenses such as those related to boarding
charges for disabled children, and removal.
Announcing the revision, the Assistant Director of Social Welfare
in charge of the Social Security Division, Mr. Frederick Clark, said:
"Those new increases will help to ensure that those with special needs do
not suffer hardship through the rising cost of food,"
He added that special allowances had been of particular concern to
him when in the U.K., and, as promised on his arrival in Hong Kong last
November, he had undertaken a review which had resulted in these improvements.
Mr. Clark went on to explain that the special dietary allowance is
paid to persons who are certified by a doctor at a government hospital or government subvented medical institution as suffering from a post-operative
condition or certain other illnesses or who require a fluid diet.
"At the moment people in this category are given an extra $100 a month on top of the public assistance payments. This higher level allowance
will go up to $140 a month.”
Those who are certified as suffering from liver disease, kidney
disease or as requiring an ulcer diet, now get an allowance of $60 but will
be getting $70.
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