BENEFITS

Depending on your household’s situation, one or more of the following types of assistance may be provided:

• Job matching services
• Rental, utilities, and/or service and conservancy charges vouchers
• Monthly cash grant to meet basic needs
• Childcare and student care subsidies
• Training grant for approved courses
• Educational assistance
• Medical assistance

(Note: the amount of assistance will be assessed by the Community Development Council (CDC) on a case-to-case basis)

RESPONSIBILITIES

Your Work Support Consultants, a CDC officer, will work out an action plan for you and your household to follow in order to become self-reliant. This means that in time, you will no longer need Work Support assistance.

You will need to sign a Letter of Undertaking to show that you are committed to co-operating with the Work Support Consultant and following the action plan. Your Work Support Consultant will keep in touch with you to help make sure that you are on track with the action plan. You must attend all the appointments that your Work Support Consultant makes with you.

Please note that your Work Support assistance may end if you and/or your household do not co-operate with your Work Support Consultant or follow the action plan.

PERIOD OF ASSISTANCE

The maximum period of assistance will be either 6 or 24 months, depending on your household situation. You will be informed of your maximum assistance period when and if your are approved for Work Support.

WHO CAN APPLY

The applicant must be a Singapore citizen or permanent resident (PR). In addition, if the applicant is a PR, then at least one of the immediate family members must be a Singapore citizen.

The applicant’s household must:

• Have a household income which is below $1500 per month
• Satisfy a needs test
• Have little or no savings
• Have little or no family and community support
• Demonstrate the willingness to take steps to become self-reliant