The 80-year-old had tried to nominate his daughter as his CPF beneficiary twice, but failed because he keyed in the wrong NRIC number for his second witness.
SINGAPORE: On his 80th birthday, a man realised that his Central Provident Fund savings would be left to his estranged ex-wife, even though he assumed it was voided after his divorce.
His son-in-law, Mr Ng Chye Aik, told Mr Toh that the 80-year-old would in fact have to make a fresh CPF nomination. She claimed that she had received mobile text messages from the CPF Board asking her to log on to complete her attestation to Mr Toh's signature, but did not see any message or notification for further action when she logged in. She thus assumed it was enough for her to log in.Ms Toh and her husband sent requests for the CPF savings to be disbursed to Ms Toh instead of Ms Yee, but the CPF Board explained that Mr Toh had not successfully made a new nomination before his passing.
Ms Toh's lawyers, Covenant Chambers' Mr Goh Hui Hua and Mr Tan Jia Jun James, said that the rules involved to prevent fraud were not engaged in this case. "They had lived their lives essentially as strangers since their divorce," he said."At the time of the deceased's passing, Ms Yee and the deceased had been divorced for over 36 years.""The completeness of her estrangement from the family can be seen from the difficulties that Ms Toh encountered in locating Ms Yee to serve the documents for the present case," said the judge.
The fact that the second witness had not given her attestation to Mr Toh's nomination meant that Mr Toh did not fulfil a requirement under the CPF Rules.
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