No-strings-attached cash aid helps lower-income pursue longer-term goals: AWWA study

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No-strings-attached cash aid helps lower-income pursue longer-term goals: AWWA study

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Over one and a half years, 75 lower-income households received an average of S$500 every month in cash aid with no strings attached. Social service agency AWWA undertook a study that revealed how that has helped them pursue longer-term goals. CNA's Syahida Othman speaks to Director of Family Services at AWWA, Huixia Seetoh, and Senior Research Fellow at NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Head of the Case Insights Unit & Social Inclusion Project, Dr Ng Kok Hoe, and finds out that gaps remain, especially when it comes to getting quality jobs that can improve their lives.

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@anziar3038 Ай бұрын

Such a study is meant to find ways to help the low income group. PAP is obviously the only responsible and caring party in s'pore.❤❤

@megantan89 Ай бұрын

But there are still many rough sleepers in Singapore 667 as of last years if I am not mistaken. Correct me if I’m wrong. Many are senior citizens 60, 70 even 80 years old. They are also Singaporean.

@WasLostButNowAmFound Ай бұрын

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@JojoJoget Ай бұрын

It doesn’t do anything dog

@godsamazinggrace5331 Ай бұрын

No strings attached No pressure No adding on to psychological distress That's genuinely helping Awwa setting an example

@sl1737 Ай бұрын

I hope the gov't can offer assistance to children with sporting goals. Sports is quite divisive as coaching fees and equipment costs are exorbitant.

@ordinaryobserver897 Ай бұрын

Good job. Hope this gets implemented into gov social scheme to really help people out of poverty.

@guantisengkun4342 Ай бұрын

They meant Malay household

@marktn9851 Ай бұрын

Lower income might surprise you when they hv so many things at home, so much so that they need to stack up outside corridor area, blocking neighbours n fire escape path.

@howeichin4103 Ай бұрын

interesting socio economic news

@Hs5687 Ай бұрын

Ironically, Lee Kuan Yew had Bad Habit of Ruthlessly Destroying not only Political Adversaries But also Influential People, Families and sometimes even Target , Loot & Plunder Wealthy Communities etc … ie. SG’s Once Wealthy Arabs etc

@martinarchie2902 Ай бұрын

I believe the root cause of the high cost of living is the policy of Singapore Corporatization. This policy requires even government agencies, like public healthcare, to generate revenue.

@martinarchie2902 Ай бұрын

Behind this drive of high prices and cost of living is the Government policy of Singapore Corporatization; every government agency ought to generate some revenue, which drives up cost of living.

@martinarchie2902 Ай бұрын

Apart from high rental cost in Singapore, another probable factor is excessive profiteering by Singapore enterprises.

@martindawn934 Ай бұрын

The problem lies, instead, with Singapore's attitude towards offense. Nowhere else in the entire western world would you find the national reaction to being offended on a par with what we have recently witnessed