{"id":987522207,"date":"2021-10-29T03:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/voucher-rebates-for-low-income-households-in-singapore\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:57:58","slug":"voucher-rebates-for-low-income-households-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/voucher-rebates-for-low-income-households-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Voucher rebates for low-income households in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>In Singapore, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is imposed on the domestic consumption of goods or services including imports. A permanent GST Voucher Scheme was introduced in 2012, aiming to support lower- and middle-income households and the elderly. The voucher has three components: cash, MediSave, and U-Save. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>For the U-Save, the voucher is rebated quarterly to support expenses for utility bills in January, April, July, and October.\u200b Recently, the&nbsp;U-Save special payment has been added, aiming to provide additional support to families due to the impacts of the COVID pandemic.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>In this financial year, a total of S$460 million in rebates will be allocated via the regular U-Save and the&nbsp;U-Save special payment that provides an additional 50 percent of their regular U-Save rebates in April and July.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The regular U-Save rebates is given to households living the flats as follows: S$100 for one- and two-room flats, S$90 for three-room flats, S$80 for four-room flats, S$70 for five-room flats and S$60 for executive apartments and multi-generation&nbsp;flats.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>To read more, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/hdb-gst-vouchers-u-save-october-2021-mof-2214666\">click<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: Channel News Asia<\/p>\n<p>Picture by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/p\/vectorvadim\/\">vectorvadim<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Singapore, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is imposed on the domestic consumption of goods or services including imports. A permanent GST Voucher Scheme was introduced in 2012, aiming to support lower- and middle-income households and the elderly. The voucher has three components: cash, MediSave, and U-Save. For the U-Save, the voucher is rebated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987528878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522207"}],"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=987522207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}