Support Programme for the Unemployed (SPU)

Unemployed able-bodied CSSA applicants / recipients aged 15 to 59 are required to participate in unpaid work in person with a view to facilitating their integration into society, instilling in them a work habit and enriching their work experience to enhance employability, thereby reducing their reliance on CSSA in the longer term.

Introduction of the Programme

The participants are required to take up unpaid work at least once a week and for at least one hour on each occasion until they have secured paid employment* or returned to mainstream schooling.

*For those unemployed able-bodied CSSA applicants / recipients aged 15 to 59 who are working no less than 120 hours per month with earnings no less than the prescribed level set by the SWD, they need not to participate in the SPU.