Saturday, June 6, 2015

ComCare Public Assistance Scheme (I)

The ComCare Public Assistance (PA) Scheme is a long term support for Singaporeans or Permanent Residents.

Some of the criteria as follow:

  • Unable to work due to old age, illness or unfavorable family circumstances
  • Have no means of stable income
  • Are elderly persons who receive only a small monthly payout from CPF Minimum Sum/ CPF Life, Pension, Eldershield, Lease Buyback Scheme, and the monthly payout is lower than the prevailing PA rates
  • Are elderly persons whose children are low income themselves and unable to support their parents. The children must be supporting their own families and each have household income $1,700 or below
Assistance provided includes:
  • Cash assistance to support daily living expenses
  • Additional cash assistance for children to support their out of pocket expenses
  • Secondary tier of assistance to help those with recurring hygiene essentials or consumables
  • Discretionary tier of assistance to help those with one off special needs
  • Free medical treatment at polyclinics and government/restructured hospitals
  • Educational assistance for school going children of PA recipients for school and miscellaneous fees as well as school books
  • Supplementary community assistance that are funded by the Government 
(Source: http://app.msf.gov.sg/Assistance/ComCare-Public-Assistance)

Yours,
Something Small Thinking Big

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