HDB has financial assistance for rental flats?
After writing “HDB ($99) eviction of single jobless mother with sick father: Compassionate or heartless?” – I googled “HDB financial assistance” and found the following…
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HDB ($99) eviction of single jobless mother with sick father: Compassionate or heartless?
HDB tells single mother to quit rental flat or pay double rent I refer to the article “HDB gives single mother with no other housing…
Stole for wife’s medical bills: Assistance schemes?
I refer to the article “Man stole copper wires from mall to pay for wife’s chemotherapy ” (Today, Mar 8). It states that “”The 64-year-old…
Gini: Govt transfers – helps to pay less of ever increasing prices?
Income inequality lowest in a decade I refer to the article “Income inequality in Singapore lowest in a decade, monthly household income grows but at…
Milk powder fund’s link to making babies?
Milk power fund I refer to the article “$1.5 million fund for low-income parents to buy milk powder for children” (Straits Times, Feb 11). It…
Why more or less remain homeless?
Where the displaced (homeless) see refuge I refer to the article “Where the displaced seek refuge” (2 full pages about the homeless – Sunday Times,…
S’poreans like rats in a laboratory?
I refer to the article “Singapore a good policy laboratory for other countries: Expert” (Straits Times, Jan 19). It states that “Singapore is a “policy laboratory”…
More flexible in helping needy: How long, what criterion, how much?
Govt will be more flexible with help for S’poreans I refer to the article “Govt will be more flexible with help for needy S’poreans” (Today,…
Charity TV Show: Cost $1m disappears from the news?
Charity tries “innovative way” to raise funds I refer to the article “Charity tries its hand at ‘innovative way’ to raise funds” (Channel NewsAsia, Jan…
“Hope that S’poreans would face ageing with optimism”?
Four-part documentary series on ageing I refer to the article “Reversing ageing: Are we smothering seniors into helplessness?” (Channel NewsAsia, Dec 26). What’s missing in…