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Current Rate

($ per month)

New Rate

From April 1996 ($ per month)

Elderly person living

in a family

1,505

1,805 (+20%)

Able-bodied adult

Single

1,210

1,615 (+33%)

Single parent or family carer

1,045

1,760 (+68%)

Other adult living in a family

1,045

1,440 (+38%)

Adult in ill-health

Single

1,210

1,935 (+60%)

Living in a family

1,045

1,760 (+68%)

50% disabled adult

living in a family

1,505

1,760 (+17%)

Other recommendations

The Group also proposed the following:

Payment of CSSA to elderly persons retiring to China

The Group recommended that elderly recipients be given a new option of retiring permanently to China while continuing to receive their monthly CSSA standard rate payment and annual long term supplement.

The Group also recommended that if elderly recipients were to continue receiving CSSA while living permanently in mainland China, they must be permanent residents of Hong Kong and have resided in Hong Kong for at least seven years; and they must have been receiving CSSA continuously for a period of not less than three years before moving to mainland China.

The new option will be introduced once all the detailed procedures have been agreed.