About 60,000 Singapore residents will stand to benefit each year.
The scheme will be open to Singaporeans aged 21 and above at launch, before being extended to PRs aged 21 and above from the first quarter of 2026.
However, the monthly payouts are capped at an individual’s previous-drawn monthly salary and they stop once the jobless worker finds work. The Government will also provide a one-off concession to Singaporean job seekers who lost their jobs on or after April 1, 2024, and remain so even when the scheme kicks off in April 2025, despite them having not worked for at least six of the 12 months before their application.
Asked if the cap on monthly payouts to an individual’s previous-drawn monthly salary would mean job seekers previously earning less than the payouts have less support despite being more in need, she said the cap is meant to ensure workers would not try to get involuntarily unemployed to earn more than their pay.
This means job seekers can still benefit from social support schemes like ComCare Short-to-Medium-Term Assistance . Asked to elaborate on how someone can show he is doing so, a WSG spokesman said: “I think these are details that we are still working on, but very broadly speaking, we do expect applicants to submit some form of documentation, and we will check this documentation.”askST Jobs: Is meeting stated job requirements enough to clinch the role?
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