The Government today disbursed the first $2,000 consumption voucher to about 810,000 eligible people who had completed electronic registration on or after July 18 or those who submitted paper forms during the registration period.

These people will successively receive SMS notifications or mobile app push notifications on the disbursement today.

For people who chose to collect the vouchers via AlipayHK, Tap & Go or WeChat Pay HK, the $2,000 vouchers have been directly injected into their specified stored value facility accounts.

Those who chose to collect the vouchers via Octopus cards may collect the $2,000 voucher by tapping the card at the Subsidy Collection Points of the Public Transport Fare Subsidy Scheme at MTR stations, Light Rail Customer Service Centres, designated piers and public transport interchanges, designated convenience stores and supermarkets, Octopus Service Points or via the Octopus app within three months from today.

If registrants who have completed electronic registration or submitted paper registration forms during the registration period from July 4 to August 14 but have not yet received the SMS notifications on their registration results, they may enquire about their registration status through the hotline 18 5000.

In addition, the Government is processing the registrations resubmitted from August 16 to 31 under the special arrangement announced on August 15, and a small number of registrations submitted during the registration period which took a longer time to process due to different reasons.

After the registrants’ eligibility has been verified, the first consumption voucher will be disbursed to them on October 1.

Together with the about 5.5 million people who were disbursed with the first voucher on August 1, the Government has disbursed the first consumption voucher to a total of about 6.3 million people.