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8/3/2019 SW Schemes and Services

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List of Schemes

PA (Public assistance): For those who are unable to work. Comes in theform of cash grants, medical, and educational assistance.

Rent and Utilities Assistance Scheme(RUAS): For those just slightly

overqualified for PA, but unable to pay for rent or utilities

HOPE (Home Ownership Plus Education) Scheme: Helps young, low-

income families through educational bursaries, house grants, training

grants for the mother, and further cash incentives for family planning

Work Support Scheme: Families with low income and low savings and

inadequate family or communal support receive various grants such as

health, medical, educational grants

Healthy Start Program: Help low income families with children aged 6

or below to enhance parent-child interactions and parenting skills. Aim is

to strengthen the family unit as a whole and provide opportunities for

children to receive early education and development. HSP provides

Parenting Programs, Family Development, and Child Development in the

form of kindergarten and childcare fees.

CCC Comcare Fund (citizens consultative committee): Provides

urgent and temporary assistance in the form of cash, vouchers or food

rations. CCC stands for Citizens Consultative Committees.

KiFAS( Kindergarten Financial Assistant Scheme: Provides financial

aid for low-income families who want to place their children in nurseries or

kindergartens but are unable to pay for it

Small Families Improvement Scheme (SFIS): Rewards poor families

with incentives if they keep their families small in order to better theirown quality of life, replaced by HOPE

Womens Charter: Provides care, maintenance and protection of

women, but also children involved in divorce and separation situations,

AND also protection for children against family violence, Parental duties to

maintain children, and offences against girls and women

SCFA (Student Care Fee Assistance Programme): For families which

need to put their children in Student Care Centres but unable to afford it,

available for children with disabilities as well


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CFAC (Centre-based Financial Assistance Scheme for Childen):

Similar to SCFA, but more stringent as it is for even lower income limits

(ICCP) Integrated Child Care Programme: MCYS funds child care

centres that cater for disabilities

Project Bridge run by YMCA to encourage youths back to education

PAL Programme: Supported by SANA with a focus on drug prevention

and a return to school on drug prevention and a return to school

Enhanced Step up : Provide school social work services to students with

socio-emotional issues and those at-risk of dropping out of school and to

motivate students with high absenteeism and out of school youths to be

meaningfully engaged. The service is carried out through casework and

counselling, family intervention and group work (Service A)/lifeskillstraining (Service B) provided by approved service providers

Unpaid Infant Care Leave Scheme: Newly implemented in 2008 that

enables working parents to take up to 6 days of unpaid leave to care for

children 2 years and below

Disabled Peoples Association of Singapore: Source of information

for all assistance and services

Adult Enhancement Programme: Skills enhancement programme for

adults who have graduated from special needs school, where they are

given further training and social skills to help them blend into mainstream

life more independently

Red Cross Home for the Disabled: Highly subsidized housing for

severely intellectually or physically disabled persons whose families are

unable to provide care

Traffic Accident Fund: Help those who have survived an accident but

suffered a permanent disability as a result, up to $10k within 7 years topurchase assistive equipment, and other monetary benefits for low

income families. Families of victims who have passed away are also

eligible.

SEED (Sustainable Enhancements for Eldercare and Disability

Services): Organisations that provide care and service for elderly or

disabled can tap into this fund to carry out R&D

VCF (VWO Charities Capability Fund) : For VWOs to tap into to

improve capabilities


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GO! Fund (Golden Opportunities): Supports organisations that provide

programmes and activities that meaningfully engage seniors, empower

them to contribute to society.Support efforts by seniors to develop

programmes/activities for themselves and other seniors;

Nurture a vibrant and effective seniors' voluntary sector; andDevelop the seniors industry in Singapore.

Silver Community Test Bed programme: Encourage companies to

develop elder friendly products and services by providing funding and a

test-bed platform to test new prototypes

Caregivers Training Grant:The Caregivers Training Grant (CTG) helps

caregivers build their capabilities so that they are able to better care for

the physical and socio-emotional needs of PWDs or the elderly.

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