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Support for Self-reliance Scheme
Support for Self-reliance (SFS) Scheme

The SFS Scheme aims at encouraging and assisting CSSA able-bodied unemployed recipients and recipients who are not working full-time to secure full-time paid employment and move towards self-reliance.

  1. The Active Employment Assistance Programme
  • through the provision of personalised employment assistance service to empower participant to overcome work barriers, enhance employability and find a paid job.
     
  2. The Community Work Programme
  • through the arrangement of unpaid community work to help the participant build up self-esteem and work habit, and prepare for rejoining the workforce in future.
     

    3. Disregarded Earnings

    • through the provision of an incentive, by disregarding part of their income, to encourage recipients to continue working.

     

     

    4. More Information (downloadable)

    Description
    Document Format
    Pamphlet on the Support for Self-reliance Scheme PDF (Acrobat Document) MS-Word (MSWord Document)
    Pamphlet on Disregarded Earnings PDF (Acrobat Document) MS-Word (MSWord Document)


     

     5. Links

    Labour Department
    Employees Retraining Board
    Construction Industry Training Authority
    Other Support

     

     

     

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