LOWER-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS<\/p>\n
Lower-income Singaporean households that need urgent and temporary financial relief for their daily living expenses currently receive aid under the ComCare Interim Assistance scheme.<\/p>\n
At present, the amount of monthly support for each eligible household is sized based on the household\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n
Currently, to qualify for ComCare Interim Assistance, households cannot earn more than S$800 a month on a per capita basis.<\/p>\n
Mr Siow said the government will increase payouts for ComCare Interim Assistance to at least S$250 per month for up to three months \u201cwith more provided to those with greater needs\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will also be more flexible on the eligibility for ComCare Interim Assistance, so more households can qualify for support.\u201d<\/p>\n
These enhancements will take effect from Aug 17 to Dec 31, said the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).<\/p>\n
ComCare Interim Assistance is disbursed on an ad hoc basis and constitutes about 1 per cent of overall ComCare payments, MSF has previously said.<\/p>\n
MSF said it will also raise payouts under the ComCare Short-to-Medium-Term Assistance (SMTA) scheme by at least 5 per cent or S$50 a month, whichever is higher, for up to three months.<\/p>\n
ComCare SMTA is for lower-income Singaporean households whose members are temporarily unable to work, looking for a job or earning a low income and in need of assistance.<\/p>\n
In 2024, close to 21,000 households benefited from ComCare SMTA. The median monthly amount disbursed under the scheme was S$380 per beneficiary in an assisted household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS Lower-income Singaporean households that need urgent and temporary financial relief for their daily living expenses currently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,237384,237383,237385,1294,193833,19814,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cdc-voucher-scheme","tag-cdc-vouchers","tag-comcare","tag-economy","tag-financial-assistance","tag-ministry-of-finance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}