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History of Old Age Allowance (OAA)

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  • Infirmity Allowance founded

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    Infirmity Allowance founded

  • Renamed as Old Age Allowance

    Infirmity Allowance renamed as Old Age Allowance after five years. Also, it decreased the requirement into 70 years old.
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    Old Age Allowance founded

    Renamed from Infirmity Allowance

  • Absence limit: 180 days

  • $625 per month

    $625 for 65 - 69 years old. $705 for 70 years or above applicants.

  • Absence limit: 240 days

    Reference The applicants are needed to stay in Hong Kong for 90 days or more in order to gain the OAA, therefore some senior citizens who wanted to stay in Mainland China needed to return to Hong Kong for 3 months.

  • Donald Tsang talked about OAA

    Speech text version

  • Absence limit: 305 days

    Recently, applicants only needed to stay in Hong Kong for 60 days to fulfill the requirement of OAA.

  • $1000 per month

    Announced in the policy address 2010.

  • $1035 per month

    This increases is adjusted by the changes of the Social Security Assistance Index of Prices, which is increased 3.5%.