on Mar 26, as a step to provide greater assurance and support to Singaporeans who need more help during the uncertain COVID-19 period.It provides a cash payout of S$3,000 for each eligible recipient, disbursed over two payments in July and October.
This brings the total number of lower-income Singaporean workers who receive additional support from the Budget 2020 scheme to about 470,000. About S$810 million in total will be disbursed to Singaporean workers in October, said MOF.Most of these workers would have qualified for the Workfare Special Payments earlier and received their first payment of S$1,500 in July, for their work done in 2019.
In a Facebook post on Friday, Mr Heng said:"The Government is committed to helping every Singaporean through this crisis, especially our lower-income workers and the more vulnerable among us.
This has made things come out, let make it clear for others.
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