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A family of six needs to tighten their pants due to the suspension of work due to the epidemic

2022-01-27T06:46:20.311Z


With the re-emergence of the epidemic, the government has tightened anti-epidemic measures, employees in some industries have to stop work, and their income has been greatly reduced.


With the re-emergence of the epidemic, the government has tightened anti-epidemic measures, employees in some industries have to stop work, and their income has been greatly reduced. The "Poverty Platform" held a press conference today (27th), inviting grassroots neighbors to talk about the plight of life under the epidemic. Some citizens lamented the government's disregard for the rights and interests of the grassroots.


The "Social Welfare Care Poverty Platform" set up by a group of workers in the social welfare sector has been dedicated to paying attention to the plight of people's livelihood. The platform's spokesman, Wong Kwok-kee, said that he noticed that the recent epidemic prevention measures have caused many small citizens to suffer, and believes that epidemic prevention work should be done. Considering the impact on people's livelihood, the current support for grassroots citizens under the epidemic is obviously insufficient. For example, the fifth round of the "Anti-epidemic Fund" launched in the middle of this month is still mainly to subsidize business operators. In addition to fitness coaches, tour leaders, etc., some Industries such as catering and beauty, which are spread across the grassroots wage earners, have not benefited.

Wong Kwok-kee sighed that the Chinese New Year will be in about a week, and the citizens desperately need financial assistance, but the government feels indifferent, and many grassroots families are in a situation of helplessness.

"Social Welfare Care Poverty Platform" held a press conference today (27th), inviting grass-roots neighbors to talk about their living plight under the epidemic. Some citizens lamented that the government ignored the rights and interests of the grass-roots. The platform suggested that the government implement an "income protection plan" to directly subsidize some affected industries. citizens.

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Expenditures have risen, prices have risen sharply

A Hong's family of six lives in a public housing unit in Tsui Ping Village. She and her husband have stopped work due to the government's tightening of epidemic prevention measures. They have to stay at home to take care of the other two children who are studying in primary school and kindergarten respectively. The family currently relies on the second brother to work The meager income of the catering industry, the family had an income of nearly 30,000 yuan before the fifth wave of the epidemic, and now depends on more than 10,000 yuan a month to cover all the living expenses of a family of six.

A Hong applied for the "Public Housing Difficulty Household" policy in the early days, and she can enjoy rent reduction and exemption, but the HD still increases the rent every year. A Hong said that the HD has increased the rent three times since 2019. She moved into the public housing. Paying about 2,900 yuan in rent, with a 10% increase each time, the current rent has risen to nearly 4,000 yuan. "The past few years have been the most difficult period for us."

In addition to rising rents, Ah Hong has to "tighten her pants to live" every month. Currently, her family only has 7,000 to 8,000 yuan left to live on. She has to be careful when buying daily necessities. However, she has found that prices have risen in recent months. Rice has risen from about 70 yuan to over 100 yuan in the past. "Everything you need in life, the price of diesel, rice, oil and salt has increased, and the traffic is tight!" She said that people cannot go out to eat during the epidemic, and supermarkets have increased their prices to make more money. They have a lot of money, but at the same time they benefit from the government's various subsidy measures, which is very unfair to these sandwich classes.

Grassroots life is stretched, criticizing the government for "fat and thin"

A Hong said that the government's anti-epidemic fund is only "fat and thin", and each fund is calculated in 100 million yuan, but the beneficiaries are some companies. For the quality of life, if you want to give your children a good life, you can’t.” She suggested that the government should allow grassroots citizens to apply for subsidies on their own, and at the same time introduce measures such as rent reduction to relieve the urgent need.

The Social Welfare Care Poverty Platform stated that the government's care for the grassroots is equivalent to "zero", and many rely on the people for self-help. Therefore, it is hoped that the government will face up to the problem as soon as possible.

In this regard, it is suggested that the government should improve the design of the employment protection scheme and instead launch an "income protection scheme" that directly supports wage earners, and pay each employee who is unemployed or forced to take unpaid leave a subsidy calculated at 50% of their original actual wages. As for employees who are forced to reduce their working hours, a subsidy of 50% of their reduced income will be given, with a maximum subsidy of $9,000. The age limit of 18 to 64 in the plan should also be removed so that more working seniors can benefit. .

In addition, various emergency measures should be reintroduced, such as doubling the ceiling of CSSA and halving the threshold for transportation allowance subsidies. In the long run, the government should set up unemployment insurance to meet future needs.

Under the epidemic, grassroots workers stopped more than 4 adults, and the income of adults decreased. Scholars: pass the cost of clearing on to the public to stop work and seek help from food banks during the epidemic. SMEs donated 200,000 to help the grassroots: solve the problem of lack of meals at the grassroots level Winter Solstice | Work starts on the 29th of each month Straight on overtime single parent "Iron Mom" ​​does not say the bitter winter solstice to send warmth | Grassroots elders love to eat a hundred people's banquet under the chicken epidemic and distribute "Big Chicken Spleen Braised Mushroom" meal

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