{"id":379174,"date":"2026-04-07T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/379174\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:39:08","slug":"higher-cash-payouts-help-for-platform-workers-as-singapore-announces-s1b-support-package-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/379174\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher cash payouts, help for platform workers as Singapore announces S$1b support package amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPPORT FOR TRANSPORT WORKERS<\/p>\n<p>Mr Siow, who is also Acting Minister for Transport,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/middle-east-conflict-iran-jeffrey-siow-parliament-support-businesses-6040511\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> announced additional support for the domestic transport sector and businesses<\/a>, noting that sharp fuel price increases have hit the earnings of platform workers, private-hire car drivers and taxi drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The government will disburse S$200 in cash to active platform workers, private-hire car drivers and taxi drivers from the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible platform workers are those with net earnings from platform work exceeding S$500 a month across all platform operators for each month from December 2025 to February 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board will automatically disburse the cash payout based on net earnings declared by platform operators when making CPF contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Payouts will go out via PayNow-NRIC by end-April, or GIRO by May 11. Those without PayNow-NRIC or a valid bank account will receive the payout via GovCash by May 18.<\/p>\n<p>The cash relief also applies to all taxi drivers who held a vehicle hire agreement with a taxi operator from December 2025 to February 2026. The Land Transport Authority will automatically disburse payouts by mid-May to eligible taxi drivers who do not receive them through the CPF Board.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPPORT FOR TRANSPORT WORKERS Mr Siow, who is also Acting Minister for Transport, announced additional support for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,146789,3154,184,85,181597,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-379174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cdc-vouchers","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-impact-of-war-on-iran","14":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}