The Community Care Fund has extended the Subsidy for Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) Recipients Living in Rented Private Housing assistance programme for six months to the end of April next year.

The six-month programme is administered by the Social Welfare Department.

It aims to provide a one-off subsidy to CSSA households living in rented private housing and paying rent which exceeds the maximum rent allowance under the CSSA scheme to relieve their financial burden from rent increases.

Beneficiaries should be, as at July 31, private housing tenants receiving CSSA with a monthly rental payment exceeding the maximum rent allowance under the CSSA scheme.

They are not required to submit applications as the department will identify eligible CSSA households based on reported rental records as at July 31.

The monthly subsidy will be either 50% of the portion of the rental amount exceeding the maximum rent allowance or 15% of that allowance, whichever is the less.

The subsidy will be disbursed in one go and is expected to be deposited directly into the eligible CSSA households' bank accounts from late January.

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