B.
27.7
27.8
X
X
27.9
X
27.10
X
27.11
New Schemes:
X
27.12
52
X
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"Our first general suggestion was that the progressive developments of social insurance should be accepted in principle."
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as "first priority" a scheme of social insurance for sickness benefit, compulsory for all persons employed on contract below a certain level of income, possibly to be extended to higher income groups and to the self-employed
Colonial Secretary
the Government would "examine more closely" these proposals, but "I must confess that I see some formidable difficulties in devising a scheme which would not be susceptible to fraud or be impossibly expensive.
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a social insurance scheme to pay for medical care, to be introduced concurrently with sickness benefit
Colonial Secretary
"In the Hong Kong context I have serious doubts about the practica- bility of the proposal for social insurance for medical care...
as "second priority", social insurance for old age and survivorship benefit, i.e. an old age pension for men and women over a certain age, having "special regard to the need of widows with young children"; also, transitory provisions for those already too old or for other reasons unable to contribute to such a scheme.
Colonial Secretary
"In the Hong Kong context I have serious doubts also... about the general acceptability of the proposal for social insurance for old age and survivorship benefit."
new ways and means of assisting ("not necessarily by direct financial aid") widows, especially those with young children
Colonial Secretary -
"I agree with the Working Party that we should explore new ways of assisting widows, especially those with young children"
(as of 1974 the Government was still exploring)
in future, a comprehensive range of injury benefits related to earnings, and pensions in cases of serious incapacity or death, to replace benefits provided in the interim by modifications to the Workmen's Compen- sation Ordinance as in 27.4 above; the cost to be borne by the em- ployer
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