Singapore legislation
Clause 16
Clause 16
Pioneer generation benefits
(1)
The financial assistance to which a Pioneer is eligible under this Act is as follows:
a cash grant to be credited to the Medisave account or other account of the Pioneer in the Central Provident Fund, being of an amount prescribed for the Pioneer or the class that the Pioneer belongs;
a cash grant payable in such other manner of an amount prescribed for the Pioneer if he or she has any disability or satisfies such other conditions as may be prescribed for the grant;
a subsidy of the cost of any premium of a prescribed insurance scheme covering the Pioneer (whether alone or as a member of a class) in relation to health services, up to the maximum proportion or maximum amount of that cost prescribed for the Pioneer or the class that the Pioneer belongs;
a subsidy of the cost of any relevant health service rendered or provided to the Pioneer by any prescribed healthcare provider, up to the maximum proportion or maximum amount of that cost prescribed for the Pioneer.
(2)
If —
a reimbursement arrangement is made in respect of any relevant health service rendered or provided to a Pioneer;
a prescribed healthcare provider referred to in subsection (1)(d) is party to or bound by that arrangement;
that prescribed healthcare provider renders or provides any relevant health service to a Pioneer; and
that prescribed healthcare provider is entitled, under the reimbursement arrangement, to reimbursement of the whole or part of the cost and expenses it incurred in respect of the relevant health service so rendered or provided,there is payable to the prescribed healthcare provider a grant by way of reimbursement (called a reimbursement grant) of its cost and expenses in rendering or providing the relevant health service to a Pioneer, up to the maximum proportion or maximum amount of those costs and expenses allowed under the reimbursement arrangement applicable to that prescribed healthcare provider.
(3)
However, nothing in this section prevents a Pioneer from refusing any financial assistance under subsection (1).