Budget surplus revised by $10.8b?
Budget cash surplus $25.3b? According to Department of Statistics’ Monthly Digest of Statistics, June 2014 – the Budget cash surplus for FY2012 was $25.3 billion….
MediShield Life: Premiums increase yearly to as much as 189% by 2019?
We refer to the article “MediShield Life review: Premium increase much lower than feared” (Straits Times, Jun 27). Increase in premiums mostly absorbed by subsidies…
CPF graffiti culprit got counselling, help?
We refer to the article “CPF graffiti culprit jailed 4 weeks” (Straits Times, Jun 24). Homeless since 2003? It states that “he had been picking…
Thanks to my CPF insider ES, for compiling this very “revealing” timeline of CPF changes
Update: Stroke patient with primary 5 son & wife – total income $1,040 struggles?
We would like to thank the about 30 people who have contacted us, to offer various assistance to Jimmy (not his real name) and his…
Fiction: Roy Ngerng seeks due process?
“The former patient coordinator at the Communicable Disease Centre of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Roy Ngerng, who was summarily dismissed by the hospital on 10…
Labour market report shows increase in job vacancies increase, but unemployment up?
theonlinecitizen June 13, 2014 Labour market report shows increase in job vacancies, but unemployment up? By SY Lee and Leong Sze Hian The Labour Market First Quarter…
Update: The curious case of the ‘demolished’ P.O. box
12 June, 2014 Update: I received a call from SingPost asking me to provide copies of my bank statements for the last few years showing…
Training surveys useless – Its the pay ‘stupid’?
We refer to the article “More workers report positive outcomes from national skills training framework” (Straits Times, Jun 11). 81% didn’t get pay raise? It…
65 year old needs job to repay stranger who helped him buy HDB SA
65 year old desperately needs a job “After moving in to my Studio Apartment last Dec, I have not been able to secure stable income…