{"id":987522197,"date":"2021-11-27T03:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T02:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/singapore-will-open-a-long-term-disability-program-for-people-born-in-1979-or-earlier\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:55:51","slug":"singapore-will-open-a-long-term-disability-program-for-people-born-in-1979-or-earlier","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/singapore-will-open-a-long-term-disability-program-for-people-born-in-1979-or-earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore will open a long-term disability program for people born in 1979 or earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>Long-term care is needed for dependent older persons. However, the cost of long-term care and duration of disability are unpredictable. Thus, a new long-term disability program so called \u201cCareShield Life\u201d has been introduced to provide a basic lifetime financial support for those who are aged and severely disabled in Singapore.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The old scheme \u201cElderShield\u201d was replaced by the \u201cCareShield Life\u201d since October 2020, aiming to provide better protection for those who have severe disability with higher payouts. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>From Nov 6, the long-term disability support scheme will open for online sign-up to those who are Singaporeans and permanent residents born in 1979 or earlier.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>To promote enrolment among the insured population, the government will provide the incentives up to S$2,500 to all Singaporeans born in 1979 or earlier applying for the CareShield Life by Dec 31, 2023.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span>To read more, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/careshield-life-born-1979-earlier-long-term-care-disability-insurance-moh-2244001\">click<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Source: Channel News Asia<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Picture by&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/p\/creativaimages\/\">Creativa Images<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term care is needed for dependent older persons. However, the cost of long-term care and duration of disability are unpredictable. Thus, a new long-term disability program so called \u201cCareShield Life\u201d has been introduced to provide a basic lifetime financial support for those who are aged and severely disabled in Singapore. The old scheme \u201cElderShield\u201d was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987528746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[116],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}