Solidarity Budget: Key announcements from DPM Heng Swee Keat's ministerial statement
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat will be giving a ministerial statement on a third round of support measures in Parliament on Monday (April 6) at 2pm. This is to help people better cope with the upcoming elevated set of safe distancing measures that will take effect from Tuesday.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced a third round of Covid-19 relief measures in Parliament on Monday (April 6). The latest relief packages are meant to help businesses, workers and households tide through the “circuit breaker” period.
Watch his speech here:
SOLIDARITY BUDGET: KEY ANNOUNCEMENTS
All Singaporeans above 21 years old to receive additional one-off cash payment of S$300, taking total to S$600 Higher wage subsidies, extended rental waivers, foreign worker levy rebate among moves to help firms, employees Govt widens criteria to allow more freelancers to automatically qualify for income relief S$5.1b third relief package to require another S$4b draw on past reservesRELATED STORY: Covid-19: Speaker urges MPs to be ‘socially closer’ to citizens even as people are kept further apart
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