Care And Support Package

As part of the Unity and Resilience Budgets, the Care and Support Package will provide more assurance and support to Singaporeans who may be concerned about coping with their household expenses during this period of extraordinary economic uncertainty. All adult Singaporeans will benefit, with more help given to the less well-off. The Care and Support Package will cost a total of about $4.6 billion.

With the enhancements announced on 26 March 2020, all Singaporeans aged 21 years and above in 2020 will receive a one-off Care and Support – Cash payout of $900, $600 or $300, depending on their income (see Table 1). Those who own more than one property will receive $300, regardless of their income. Of these amounts, $300 of the Care and Support – Cash was paid out in April 2020 as part of the $600 Solidarity Payment. The remaining Care and Support – Cash of $600 and $300 for lower- and middle-income Singaporeans will be paid from 18 June 2020.

In addition, adult Singaporean parents with at least one Singaporean child aged 20 years and below in 2020, will each receive an additional $300 in cash. Singaporeans aged 50 and above in 2020 will each receive an additional $100 cash, which replaces the earlier announced PAssion Card top-up, in view of the COVID-19 situation and the need for safe distancing during this period. These additional payments will be made together with the remaining Care and Support – Cash payouts from 18 June 2020.

The details of the Care and Support – Cash were announced in this press release on 4 June 2020.

As announced at Budget 2020, all Singaporean employees and self-employed persons who received Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) payments in Work Year 2019 will receive a Workfare Special Payment (WSP) in 2020.

The WSP provides a cash payout of $3,000 for all eligible Singaporeans. Eligible employees and Self-Employed Persons will receive the same amount of $3,000, which will be paid over two equal payments of $1,500 each, in July and October 2020.

The WSP will provide additional support for low-wage workers aged 35 and above in 2019^[1].

All Singaporeans aged 21 years and above, who live in 1-room and 2-room HDB flats and do not own more than one property, will receive $300 in Grocery Vouchers this year, and $100 in 2021. Grocery Vouchers can be used at participating supermarkets. To date, NTUC FairPrice, Giant and Sheng Siong have agreed to accept these vouchers.

Eligible citizens will be given the 2020 Grocery Vouchers in October and December 2020. More details will be announced at a later date.

All eligible HDB households will receive double their regular GST Voucher (GSTV) – U-Save in Financial Year (FY) 2020 (April 2020 to March 2021) through a one-off GSTV – U-Save Special Payment. Eligible households with five or more members will receive an additional GSTV – U-Save rebate in FY2020, and will thus receive a total of 2.5 times their regular GSTV – U-Save in FY2020 (see Table 2).

The Government will provide a grant of $20 million over FY2020 and FY2021 to Self-Help Groups (SHGs), and a grant of $75 million to Community Development Councils (CDCs) in FY2020. This will provide further help to scale up local assistance schemes to support vulnerable households.

Eligible Singaporean households living in HDB flats will receive rebates to offset between 1.5 and 3.5 months of Service and Conservancy Charges (S&CC) over FY2020 (see Table 3).

Find out more about the Care and Support Package here.