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Overcoming the Crisis
Find out how these support measures can help protect your livelihood through this challenging period and prepare you for new opportunities when the economy recovers.
- Support for self-employed persons
- $3,000 cash payout each in May, July and October 2020
- Criteria broadened to benefit more self-employed persons
- $10/hour training allowance, on top of subsidies that cover up to 90% of course fees
- Applications/appeals open for those who did not automatically qualify and facing difficult circumstances
Find out more
Support for training
- Opportunities for individuals
- One-off $500 SkillsFuture Credit top-up for adult Singaporeans
- Check out the available courses
- Get your career advice here
- Hiring incentive for employers who hire retrained and reskilled local workers
- 20% of monthly salary support for 6 months, capped at $6,000 in total, when hiring workers under aged 40
- 40% of monthly salary support for 6 months, capped at $12,000 in total, when hiring workers aged 40 and above
- Support for enterprises to develop workers
Reduce costs for businesses
- Jobs Support Scheme
- Employers to receive wage support of 25 - 75% offset for first $4,600 of monthly wages for all local workers up till August 2020 or a total of 10 months
- Firms that cannot resume on-site operations after 1 June will receive 75% offset until August 2020, or when they are allowed to re-open
- Higher wage support of 50 – 75% offset for more firms in badly affected sectors, 25% for other sectors
- 50,000 eligible Shareholder-Directors will also benefit
- Property tax deferment
- Deferment of income tax payments for 3 months
- Property Tax Rebate of 30 – 100% for businesses in commercial and non-residential properties
- Rental waivers
- COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act allowing individuals and businesses to defer contractual obligations such as paying rent, repaying loans and completing work, for a period
- Up to 2 months’ rental offset for SME tenants in commercial, industrial, and office properties
- Up to 5 months’ rental waiver for Government tenants, such as hawker centre and market stallholders
- $300 per month over five months to encourage stallholders to adopt e-payment methods
- $5,000 payout for businesses that digitalise basic payment and invoicing such as Corporate PayNow
- Additional $5,000 payout for F&B and retail businesses that adopt advanced digital solutions
- $250m set aside to help businesses digitalise with platform solution providers
Ease businesses’ cash flow
- Help with loan insurance payments
- Corporate income tax deferred
- Planned increase in CPF contribution rates for senior workers deferred to 2022
- Up to 2 months’ extension of Foreign Worker Levy waiver and rebate for businesses that cannot resume on-site operations
Improve businesses’ access to credit
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