Recipients of the Working Family Allowance (WFA) will receive a one-off extra allowance after the passage of the Appropriation Bill 2023, the Government announced today.

The extra allowance was proposed in the 2023-24 Budget and will be disbursed one month after the bill's passage at the earliest.

Eligible recipients are the households whose WFA applications were made in the applicable period - from the first day of the month in which the bill is passed to the date of the bill's passage, and six calendar months before that month.

New applicants or previous WFA recipients who have yet to submit applications in the applicable period should do so on or before the date of the bill's passage to be eligible for the extra allowance.

The extra allowance is equal to one half of the average monthly allowance in approved months in a recipient’s most recently submitted WFA application, which was submitted in the applicable period and eventually approved.

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