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Electronic Consumer Coupon | Registered users last year will be issued 5,000 yuan in April without additional procedures

2022-03-07T04:32:56.293Z


Finance Secretary Chen Maobo announced in the latest budget at the end of last month that the government will continue to distribute electronic consumer vouchers to the public this year, with the amount increasing to 10,000 yuan. It is expected that the measures will benefit 6.6 million people. Chen Maobo today (7th


Finance Secretary Chen Maobo announced in the latest budget at the end of last month that the government will continue to distribute electronic consumer vouchers to the public this year, with the amount increasing to 10,000 yuan. It is expected that the measures will benefit 6.6 million people.

Chen Maobo announced today (7th) that the consumer coupons will also be issued in two installments. The first installment of RMB 5,000 will be distributed in April. The remaining RMB 5,000 will be distributed in the middle of the year after being distributed by the four stored value and payment platforms issued last year.

However, Octopus users will only be charged RMB 4,000 in the first stage, and they can receive the remaining RMB 1,000 as early as June 16 after their eligible consumption reaches RMB 4,000.


▼The government announced on February 23 that it will launch electronic consumer coupons this year▼


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Newly registered citizens will have to wait for the second installment to receive

Wang Xueling, director of the Budget and Tax Policy Unit, said that a new round of consumer coupons will be distributed to Hong Kong permanent residents and new arrivals over the age of 18.

In the first phase, $5,000 will be distributed in installments to the 6.8 million people who have successfully registered last year; in the second phase, the remaining $5,000 will be distributed to those citizens, and $10,000 will be distributed in installments to newly registered citizens.

She emphasized that citizens who have registered for the previous round of consumption coupons, if the registered account is still valid, "actually do not use it at all", and do not need to register and go through the formalities again, the situation is like obtaining a new issue of consumption coupons.

▼On March 7, the government announced the 2022 electronic consumer coupon plan▼


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No transfer to other platforms 58,000 people need to go through supplementary procedures

As for citizens whose original registered account is invalid, including e-wallet cancellation, lost or returned Octopus, etc., they must update their information within a specified time, register with another account on the platform last year, and then re-register for collection, and cannot transfer to other platforms.

If the public does not know whether the account has expired, the general electronic wallets are AlipayHK, WeChat Pay, Tap & Go. Even if the account is idle for a period of time, the public can still call the hotline of the relevant stored value operator or visit the website of the Consumer Coupon Scheme to confirm. Whether the account is valid.

Regarding Octopus, the public can call the Octopus hotline, or go to the Octopus website and APP, and only need to provide the Octopus number to confirm.

If the account still exists, "do nothing" until the first stage of payment.

Wang Xueling said that only about 1,000 people canceled the issuance of accounts, but 57,000 people who received Octopus have returned their cards, of which 17,000 were returned because they exchanged "Leyou Cards", and they need to go through the procedures before they can get them.

▼The first two issues of electronic consumer coupons in 2021▼


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To collect with Octopus card, you need to spend $4000 before the end of May to get the balance

When the consumer coupons are distributed in April, users of AlipayHK, WeChat Pay, and Tap & Go can receive a one-time charge of RMB 5,000, which is valid for 7 months, which ends on October 31.

As for Octopus users, it will be collected in two instalments, and the first instalment will receive $4,000.

If the user has accumulated a total of RMB 4,000 at the end of May, they can receive the remaining RMB 1,000, which is valid until the end of October.

Users only need to spend 4,000 yuan eligible at the end of the month, and on the 16th of the next month, they will automatically receive the remaining 1,000 yuan; that is, they can claim it as early as June 16 and at the latest on November 16.

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Source: hk1

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