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Adoptive moms, who are eligible, are entitled to 12 weeks of paid adoption leave to connect with and care for their adopted children.
If your child is between the ages of 7 and 12, you may be eligible for extended childcare leave.
Working mothers are entitled to paid maternity leave following the birth of their child.
If you have worked for your company for at least three months, you are entitled to paid yearly leave under the Employment Act.
Working fathers, including self-employed fathers, have been entitled to two weeks of paid paternity leave financed by the government from January 1, 2017.
Compassionate leave is not guaranteed under the law. The employment contract between you and your company determine your leave rights.
Working fathers can presently seek to share up to 4 weeks of their wife’s 16 weeks of government-paid maternity leave.
If your infant is a Singapore citizen, you are entitled to 6 days of unpaid infant care leave each year as a working parent.
A surgical withdrawal limit that varies between $750 and $2,600 depending on the kind of delivery procedure.
Up to $550 each day for the first two days and $400 per day after that for the hospital stay.
Present the invoices for pre-delivery medical care to the hospital where your baby was delivered to claim pre-delivery expenses from MediSave. The hospital will submit these invoices, together with the delivery costs, to the CPF Board on your behalf.
The amount of MediSave that can be withdrawn is limited to the lesser of the actual cost or the withdrawal limit.
When your child becomes a Singapore citizen, a MediSave account will be opened immediately in their name and a $4,000 MediSave award will be deposited.
This award can help you pay for things like MediShield Life premiums, required childhood vaccines, hospitalisation, and approved outpatient therapies for your child.
Please contact the CPF Board if you do not receive information that a MediSave account has been set up for your infant within 90 days of registering your baby’s birth.
To pay for your baby’s MediShield Life premiums, you can use the Medisave Grant for Newborns. Premium Subsidies for the lower- to middle-income, as well as Transitional Subsidies for Singapore Citizens, are additional government subsidies provided to keep premiums reasonable for the first four years.
The government will grant Additional Premium Support to people who are financially disadvantaged and are unable to pay their portion of MediShield Life premiums even after receiving subsidies.
Treatment with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), with a maximum of three fresh and three frozen ART cycles.
For women aged 40 and up, the government will co-fund up to two of the existing six co-funded ART cycles.
For 3 cycles of intrauterine insemination, the government will co-fund up to $1,000 every cycle (IUI) as long as the couple have tried assisted reproduction (AR) or intrauterine insemination (IUI) before turning 40.
| Singapore Citizen (SC) Couple | SC-PR Couple | SC-Foreigner Couple | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Fresh ART cycles |
75%; up to $7,700 |
55%; up to $5,700 |
35%; up to $3,600 |
|
Frozen ART cycles
|
75%; up to $2,200
|
55%; up to $1,600
|
35%; up to $1,000
|
|
IUI
|
75%; up to $1,000 |
55%; up to $700 |
35%; up to $500 |
In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and its variants (with or without intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), in-vitro maturation, donor cycles, and double stimulation cycles), as well as gamete intra-fallopian transfer, are covered under the co-funding plan (GIFT).
All typical procedures can be considered for co-funding, from ovarian stimulation through embryo freezing and transfer.
Initial consultations and investigations before to a patient’s choice to begin ART therapy, on the other hand, are not covered.
You’ve been evaluated (up to 3 months) by a doctor at the public AR centre as being suitable for trying IUI before ART.
While waiting for flats to be completed, families can rent a flat from HDB for half or less than half the market price under the Parenthood Provisional Housing Scheme (PPHS).
This scheme was originally designed for young parents, but it has subsequently been expanded to cover other family types such as divorced or widowed parents with children.
The Fresh Start Housing Scheme (Fresh Start) is designed to assist second-time families with small children who are currently residing in public rental apartments. Second-time families refer to households who have already taken up one housing subsidy.
The Singapore Government introduced the Baby Bonus Scheme to encourage more Singaporeans to have children in an attempt to increase the country’s birth rate. The Baby Bonus Scheme comprises of the Baby Bonus Cash Gift and a Child Development Account (CDA).
The Child Development Account (CDA) has two parts, the First Step Grant, and the Government co-matching of our savings into this account. The First Step Grant of $3,000 will be automatically deposited when you open the CDA for your child at these banks: DBS/POSB, OCBC or UOB.
When it comes to childcare, there are several subsidies and incentives to make childcare less expensive.
Working mothers can get a Basic Childcare Subsidy of up to $600 for infant care and up to $300 for childcare.
A Basic Childcare Subsidy of up to $150 a month is available to families with non-working mothers.
An Additional Childcare Subsidy of up to $710 for infant care and $467 for childcare is available to families with working mothers (or single father) and a max monthly household income of $12,000.
At Anchor Operators or MOE kindergartens, get subsidies from $21 to $170 monthly depending on family income. Families must meet the following requirements to qualify:
The KidSTART programme assists low-income families with various sorts of child development support for children from age 0 to 6. It comprises three main key components:
After-school care for primary schools. Low-income families will be eligible for total subsidies of up to $285 per month.
Bursaries for students attending publicly funded post-secondary institutions
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