{"id":987522239,"date":"2021-07-17T03:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T02:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/singapore-increases-public-subsidies-for-health-premiums-to-senior-citizens\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:15:17","slug":"singapore-increases-public-subsidies-for-health-premiums-to-senior-citizens","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/singapore-increases-public-subsidies-for-health-premiums-to-senior-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore increases public subsidies for health premiums to senior citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore increases annual public subsidies of MediSave for seniors citizens from $250 to $1,100 based on age and pre-existing conditions. MediSave can be used to pay the premiums for MediShield Life and other MediSave-approved insurance plans, as well as medical expenses such as hospitalisation, day surgeries, and outpatient treatments. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mof.gov.sg\/news-publications\/press-releases\/pioneer-and-merdeka-generation-seniors-to-receive-278-million-in-medisave-top-ups-in-july-2021\">click.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Ministry of Finance, Singapore<\/p>\n<p>Photo by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@matthiaszomer?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Matthias Zomer<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/person-holding-a-stress-ball-339620\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore increases annual public subsidies of MediSave for seniors citizens from $250 to $1,100 based on age and pre-existing conditions. MediSave can be used to pay the premiums for MediShield Life and other MediSave-approved insurance plans, as well as medical expenses such as hospitalisation, day surgeries, and outpatient treatments. &nbsp; For more information, please click&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987529940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[116,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522239"}],"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=987522239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}