Workfare to be fixed part of social safety net
Help scheme for low-income will be reviewed, adjusted but here to stay: PM
By Li Xueying; Dec 04, 2006
The Straits Times
THE Workfare bonus for low-income workers will become a permanent feature of Singapore's social safety net, starting with a three-year run.
It will be reviewed and adjusted after that, but the scheme is here to stay, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.
'Workfare is going to be the fourth pillar of our social safety net,' he said, pledging a significant commitment to extend permanent help for the low-income group.
It will join the Central Provident Fund, the 3Ms of healthcare (Medicare, MediShield and Medifund), and the home ownership scheme, in undergirding the web of aid programmes here.
'So it's a critical part of our system, and it will ensure that we will systematically support and protect low-income Singaporeans,' said PM Lee at a People's Action Party event.
Party cadres hailed it as a fundamental shift in government thinking, one that acknowledges that there will be those who need continuing help even as the economy as a whole does well.
PM Lee, secretary-general of the ruling PAP, was speaking to 1,000 cadres at the 29th Ordinary Party Conference which elected the party's central executive committee...Read more....
Help scheme for low-income will be reviewed, adjusted but here to stay: PM
By Li Xueying; Dec 04, 2006
The Straits Times
THE Workfare bonus for low-income workers will become a permanent feature of Singapore's social safety net, starting with a three-year run.
It will be reviewed and adjusted after that, but the scheme is here to stay, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.
'Workfare is going to be the fourth pillar of our social safety net,' he said, pledging a significant commitment to extend permanent help for the low-income group.
It will join the Central Provident Fund, the 3Ms of healthcare (Medicare, MediShield and Medifund), and the home ownership scheme, in undergirding the web of aid programmes here.
'So it's a critical part of our system, and it will ensure that we will systematically support and protect low-income Singaporeans,' said PM Lee at a People's Action Party event.
Party cadres hailed it as a fundamental shift in government thinking, one that acknowledges that there will be those who need continuing help even as the economy as a whole does well.
PM Lee, secretary-general of the ruling PAP, was speaking to 1,000 cadres at the 29th Ordinary Party Conference which elected the party's central executive committee...Read more....
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