Unused start-up fund and immediate discount grant on smartcards will revert to the government after 31 December.
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Chief Executive apologises for complications, rules out topping up smartcards from last year’s scheme.
Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong told reporters on Wednesday that the government has already spent MOP 10 billion on alleviating residents’ burden of COVID-19.
About 110,000 residents went to top up their consumption subsidy smartcard on Monday, the first day of the procedure, according to a statement from Economic Services Bureau (DSE), as the government’s second phase subsidy scheme giving each resident MOP 5,000 to spend locally begins on Saturday.
Residents can start to top up their consumption smartcards for the second phase of the government’s subsidy scheme to boost locals’ spending from Monday at various service points across the city, the government announced on Thursday.
Over 620,000 residents had picked up their government consumption subsidy smartcards before late last week’s deadline, or 95 per cent of those who had registered, the Government Information Bureau (GCS) has announced.
Some MOP 1.46 billion from the public coffers have already been injected into local businesses in the first month and a half of the government’s consumption subsidy smartcard scheme.
Two local men and a non-resident worker were arrested for using other people’s government-issued consumption subsidy smartcards which they found in the street, the Public Security Police (PSP) announced on Friday.
Local residents have in the five days, since they were valid, spent MOP 295 million on goods and services with their government-issued consumption subsidy smartcards.
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