Financial Assistance Schemes

In accordance with the Education Bureau's requirement for schools under the Direct Subsidy Scheme, the School allocates 10% of its total income from tuition fee as provision for the Financial Assistance and Scholarship Schemes. Tuition fee of 2011-2012 is HK$21,000 per annum by 10 installments.

Tuition Fee Remission Scheme

This scheme aims to ensure that no eligible students would be turned away from our School because of their family financial conditions, and it is based on principles of fairness, effectiveness, clarity and efficiency.

The Means Test

The School adopts the "Adjusted Family Income" (AFI) mechanism of the Student Financial Assistance Agency of the HKSAR Government as the means test to assess the eligibility of a family for student financial assistance and its assistance level. But the School's Level of Assistance is more relaxed than the Government scheme.

The AFI mechanism is based on the following formula:

AFI =	Gross annual income of the family
	Number of family members + (1)

• Gross annual income of the family includes the annual income of the applicant and his / her spouse; 30% of the annual income of unmarried child / children residing with the family if applicable; and the contribution from relatives / friends if applicable.
• The members of a family normally refer to the applicant, his / her spouse, unmarried child / children residing with the family and the dependent parent(s) who are supported by the applicant and / or his / her spouse (Please refer to the Guidance Notes on Application for Assessment of Eligibility for definition of "Dependent Parent").
• For single-parent families of 2 to 3 members, the 'plus 1 factor' in the divisor of the AFI formula will be increased to 2.

Level of Assistance

The AFI eligibility benchmarks for various levels of assistance in the 2011 / 12 school year are listed in the table below.
Please note that the AFI is not the average monthly income of a family.

Application

Applicants must be permanent resident of Hong Kong. Deadline of application is usually in mid September. Applicants can acquire details of application and application form at the school's general office during office hour or download from the school's website. Please read application guideline carefully before filling in the application form. If there is any query about the means test and the level of assistance, the applicant is welcome to contact the General Office of the School.

School Fee Remission Application Form 2011-2012	School Fee Remission Scheme 2011-2012 Application Guideline
	HKUGA Primary School Financial Assistance Scheme
Income Testimonial (Applicable for applicants who cannot provide income evidents in the 4th Section)	Income Breakdown Record (Applicable for applicants who work as hawkers/ Sam Hong workers/ renovation workers/ construction site workers/temporary workers/ cleaning workers and cannot provide income evidence)
Profit & Loss Account (Applicable to applicants who are working sole proprietor or partnership)	Profit and Loss Account (Applicable to taxi drivers/ truck drivers/ mini-bus drivers)

Emergency assistance fund

The School has set up an emergency assistance fund to provide school fee remission for families in emergency need. This is to ensure students' education will not be affected by sudden financial difficulties in their families. There is no time limit for the application of the emergency assistance fund. Applicants please contact class teachers for application when necessary.

All information collected for application for the two mentioned schemes will be kept confidential. Information collected is for the sole use of approval and filing. Applicants should provide detailed and authentic information. According to Theft Ordinance (Cap 210, Laws of Hong Kong), it is illegal to acquire pecuniary interest by any means of deception. Offenders will receive penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment.

Other Fee Remission Schemes

The School has other schemes to provide financial assistance for needy families.

Fee Remission for Learning trips and Extended Learning Activities organized by the school

(a) For recipients of tuition fee remission:

* Parents should submit the application to school for fee remission.*

(b) For students not having any tuition fee remission: application on a case by case basis, and approval at the discretion of the Principal.

Fee subsidies for textbooks, school uniforms, school coach

For all students, application on a case by case and reimbursable basis, and approval at the discretion of the Principal.