My brother M Sin is 68 years and collects HK$625 fruit fund per m he has members to feed in China. Pensions?

Question

My elder brother Moe Sin who is 68 years old and have been living and working in Hong Kong for 50 years. He has only grade school education. He is collecting Hong Kong fruit fund of $625 per month. Due his original wife pass away a few years ago, he remarried another woman in China about eight years ago. Fortunately, he still has a part-time job as a salesman in a small store and earns less than $ 4,000 Hong Kong dollars per month, equivalent to $ 525 US dollars per month. He is dipped into the financial difficulty all year round. He has a wife and to young kids to feed. THe lower living standards in China enables him to feed his wife and kids with two thousand Hong Kong dollars with foods on the table and go to grade schools in China's village. I have sympathy to his hardship and strife the best for his family. Hong Kong government must provide bettere welfare systems to the needies. A pension plan must establish now to provide the safety net for the many aged Hong Kong citizens.

Answer 1

i can certainly agree with u but if u look at Hong Kong's society there are so many pensioners around in just practically every corner u look. How can the gov't sustain all the pension payouts given the fact that they don't have any real way to tax the public...remember the trial of adding a commodity tax which failed cuz of heavy rejection? Good luck to ur bro...

Answer 2

Why does he have only a "grade school" education?

Maybe he needed to set his sites a little higher before discontinuing his education.

Why can't his wife work?

Lastly, your question states that he makes "less than $4,000 Hong Kong dollars per month," yet, "The lower living standard in China enables his to feed his wife and kids with two thousand Hong Kong dollars." Tell your brother to move from Hong Kong to China. He'll be rich there.