| Journal Call no. | AP8.W56 |
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| Author | Veloo, Betsy May. |
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| Article Title | Elderly not fed up with daily allowance : life at the bottom on SWD allocation / Betsy May Veloo. |
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| Is Part Of | Window ; v.5, no.41, 25 Oct 1996, p.10-11, illus. |
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| Abstract | This article looks at the lives of two elderly people with $23 per day or $7.6 per meal daily food allowance doled out to them by the Social Welfare Department. Though a voluntary social worker has accused the government of ignorance in its calculation of people's basic needs, a government report on the Review of the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme says the elderly people can survive on $23-worth of food a day, disregarding that Hong Kong is one of the richest but most expensive cities in the world. |
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