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Living subsidy applications to open

January 31, 2016

The Community Care Fund will start accepting new applications from two-person households for the $8,000 one-off living subsidy for low-income households not residing in public housing, and not receiving Comprehensive Social Security Assistance, from tomorrow. 

 

Applicants should be living in rented private, industrial or commercial buildings on a monthly basis or longer; or are Home Affairs Department Singleton Hostel Programme bedspace tenants; or reside in temporary housing, on board vessels, or are homeless.

 

For two-person households renting in private, industrial or commercial buildings, their monthly income should not exceed $16,140 and their rental limit is $8,070.

 

Eligible households who benefitted from the programme from January to August last year can benefit again. Two-person households will receive notification for confirming eligibility from the fund’s secretariat in early February. 

 

Other eligible two-person households should submit new applications to service units from tomorrow. Households with seniors only, those whose members are aged 24 or below or homeless people can submit applications to elderly service units, youth service units or units accepting homeless people applications respectively.

 

The programme was launched for the third time on January 4. As at January 29, around 9,000 households have confirmed their eligibility or submitted new applications.

 

New applications from three-person households will be accepted from March 1 and four-or-more-person households from April 1, through to August 31.

 

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