Applicants/recipients of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance and Social Security Allowance need not rush back to Hong Kong
In view of the latest situation of novel coronavirus outbreak, the Director of Social Welfare will give consideration to disregard absences from Hong Kong of applicants/recipients of the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme and the Social Security Allowance Scheme (including Old Age Allowance, Old Age Living Allowance and Disability Allowance) who fail to satisfy the residence requirement or the permissible limit of absence from Hong Kong owing to the epidemic. The SWD appealed to them that there is no need to rush back to Hong Kong.
In the light of the epidemic development, applicants for the Guangdong Scheme and Fujian Scheme can submit their applications by post, instead of doing so in person in Hong Kong.
For enquiry, please contact staff of the Social Security Field Units (SSFUs) during office hours. |
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Temporary Closure of Social Security Field Units to the Public
To further prevent and control the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Government has announced that the special work arrangement for government departments will be extended. In view of this, to reduce the risk of infection arising from the gathering of people, the Social Security Field Units (SSFUs) [including Social Security Field Unit (Guangdong Scheme and Fujian Scheme)] are temporarily closed to the public but maintain services on a limited scale by other modes of service delivery from 10 February 2020 to 1 March 2020. For enquiry, please contact staff on duty of the SSFUs during office hours. |
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