Hong Kong, “Ta Kung Pao” today in the “News” post issued descriptions, our economic procedure carries on to descent, joined concurrently with the second gesture of fiscal tsunami is about to “immediate”, the redundancy rate in Hong Kong following the tough get higher to 34 month high, after applying for redundancy and CSSA low-income advance month on a advance new 5-year high, getting higher by 3.5% and 2.8%, to ask for for the number of instances have commenced to rebound from the lows.
Hong Kong Social Welfare Department estimated that the financial tsunami will have more people to apply for CSSA will do its best to provide them with counseling and retraining services. Charitable organizations think, at this stage, the figure has not fully reflect social reality, is expected to finance the power of the tsunami will continue to emerge.
Social Welfare Department on the 18th broadcast in February the figure of CSSA cases. The recent numbers indicate that via the end of February the figure of CSSA cases total 289,000, on behalf of a 4500 boom in January. Monthly boost of 1.6 per cent, the total figure of recipients of more than 476,000 people.
Figure in addition presented that all groups of recipients were kept details through the board advance in instances amid CSSA recipients Tatsu 32,875, exemplifying a spiky get higher in January, when 3.5 out of 100, since the greatest advance since SARS, ask for for some “catch up “December 2007 levels. And to ask for for low-income CSSA instances to arrive at the 16,367 diagram, and the monthly advance of 2.8 out of 100, are matching in May 2003 the greatest advance since. With view to solitary groups of instances, there were 36,831, a monthly advance of 1.8%.
The face of Hong Kong will have more population out of work, the Director of Social Welfare, Mr Stephen Fisher, looks frontwards to the number to ask for for CSSA in the next small number months will carry on to rise. He said that on a total month to ask for for CSSA instances and instances of CSSA recipients growth were kept details, considering the fiscal tsunami is changing the livelihood of the population of Hong Kong. He said that the Social Welfare Department will give the out of work with retraining and treatment services to help the public recognise and emotional household had been affected.
Chinese University of Hong Kong Social Work Assistant Professor, Department of Hong Huang said that in February had been likely to figure CSSA shall be listed considerable boosts, and is guessed to appeal for CSSA illustrate an upward trend, until the unemployment rate is likely to have stabilized afterwards merely down.
HUANG Hong-Say, in the past, even whether soaring unemployment, are not real-time are reflected in the figure of CSSA entries on, “because a lot of the unemployed have savings, you can rely on their savings to produce ends meet”, generally at 9 months or a year can be reflected; But since final year, a lot of grass-roots citizens are underemployed, or even laboring poverty, in the absence of savings and circumstances, can merely appeal for CSSA, the activate of the bigger increase.
Faced with this circumstances, HUANG Hong-proposal, the SAR Government can at this critical juncture for the population who need help to give short-term monetary help, for instance the establishment of calamity redundancy help to find a job or to give subsidies. He in addition recommended to simplify the administrative processes to ask for for CSSA, in order that all these changed people, to be correct assist.
