TNAG-2060-FCO40-2938-Hong-Kong-Overseas-Service-Pensioners--Association-(OSPA)-1990 — Page 93

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本署檔號 OUR REF: (28) in AP 293/47-C(89) II

來函檔號 YOUR REF:

File: OSPA

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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

3 July 1990

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Letter 28

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13/2/20

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Mr M V Stone

Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth office

London SW1A 2AH

U.K.

Dear Michael,

replied 12/8

HK8

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233

13 AUG 1990

We have just received a copy of "The Overseas Pensioner (April 1990 issue)", the official journal

of the Overseas Service Pensioners Association (OSPA). are disturbed by the report on Hong Kong pensions on pages 6 and 28

6 and 28 of the journal where reference is made that "the HK Government have undertaken to examine any serious hardship cases arising from exchange rate fluctuations." This appears to have been quoted from

Tetters from the FCO.

As explained in our telno 1567 when we commented on your proposed reply to a PQ on sterling safeguards for pensions, our current proposal to 2, provide relief for pensioners suffering genuine hardship is not designed to protect overseas pensioners from the effects of currency fluctuations. It is а scheme, on a very small scale, to help pensioners in difficulties in meeting one off expenses e.g. funeral expenses or the cost of a wheelchair. We hope that this could be clarified with the OSPA.

Yours sincerely,

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(Mrs C Willis)

for Secretary for the Civil Service