Secretary for Labour & Welfare and Community Care Fund Task Force Chairperson Dr Law Chi-kwong today visited a Bank of China (Hong Kong) branch to learn about its situation on the first day of applications for the One-off Allowance for New Arrivals from Low-income Families Programme.

Bank of China (Hong Kong) is the agent bank for the programme.

Dr Law spoke to bank staff to better understand how they accept and check the applications.

He was pleased to note that overall operations were generally smooth on the first day and that applications could be dispersed in phases to help applicants.

Dr Law thanked the bank for its special arrangement to open 17 branches this Sunday in different districts to enable the submission of application forms.

Applications can be submitted to any of the bank's 168 branches across the city starting tomorrow. People can also submit online applications through its website or make paper-form applications.

The deadline is December 31.

Call 3988 1810 for enquiries.