* Long Term Assistance (LTA) beneficiaries receive comprehensive assistance: cash for their daily living expenses, free medical treatment at restructured hospitals and polyclinics, additional assistance for recurrent and hygiene needs, assistive devices or household appliances, free or highly subsidised social services, and other supplementary assistance in cash or in kind. * MSF reviews the LTA cash assistance rates regularly to ensure that it keeps pace with the cost of living to help recipients meet their daily needs. This year, we will be increasing the LTA cash assistance rate for a 1-person household to $600 per month. The rates for larger household sizes will also be increased. * In implementing the Silver Support payout for LTA recipients, we took into account that their basic living expenses are already covered under LTA. The majority of LTA recipients are elderly. As the Silver Support payouts are to supplement other forms of retirement income, we have set the Silver Support payout for eligible LTA recipients at $360 per quarter (i.e. $120 per month).