Adjustment to CSSA Payment Rates

143.     I am very concerned about the impact of recent price rises on CSSA households. Apart from the additional one-month standard rate CSSA payments, we also propose to adjust the CSSA payment rates in accordance with the existing mechanism ahead of the normal schedule this year, so as to ease the impact of rising prices on these households. This measure will increase government expenditure on CSSA payments when inflation rises.

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