Yan Chai Tetraplegic Fund

Aim

The Yan Chai Tetraplegic Fund aims to provide assistance to relieve the financial difficulties of tetraplegic patients by supporting their living in the community and improving their quality of living.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible to apply for assistance, an applicant (tetraplegic patient) must satisfy the following criteria:

1. Hong Kong residents;
2. Tetraplegic patients with spinal injury at or above level 5 of cervical spine or equivalent disability; and
3. Applicant with tetraplegia resulting from cerebrovascular disease (stroke) must be a breadwinner within one year before illness. Eligible applicants cannot have had a stroke for over a year at the time of application; and
4. Applicants and his/her family must pass both the income and asset tests; and
5. Tetraplegic patients staying in any residential institution, such as hospital, residential home for people with disabilities, or boarding school will not become beneficiaries of the Fund. However, those tetraplegic patients who have potential to be discharged from the institutions and have concrete discharge plan to live at home are eligible to apply for the Fund; and
6. Not a current recipient of the Yan Chai Caring Fund for Severely Disabled; and
7. Non-CSSA recipients (Based on the principle of no double benefits, CSSA recipients will not be accepted unless duplication of subsidies can be avoided.)