Singapore legislation
Regulation 6
Regulation 6
Benefits
Subregulation 1
Subject to paragraph (5), an individual who becomes an eligible individual during the second, third or fourth quarter in 2016 is eligible to receive a cash grant for that quarter and each of the next 3 quarters.
Subregulation 2
Subject to paragraph (5), an individual who becomes an eligible individual during any quarter in any year (being 2017 or later) is eligible to receive a cash grant for that quarter and each of the next 3 quarters.
Subregulation 3
Subject to paragraph (4), where an eligible individual is eligible to receive benefits under the Scheme in any year by reason of satisfying a criterion or the criteria specified in the first column of Part 1, 2 or 3 of the Schedule, each cash grant which that individual is eligible to receive for a benefit period in that year will be of the amount specified opposite in the second column of Part 1, 2 or 3 of the Schedule, as the case may be.
Subregulation 4
Where an eligible individual is eligible to receive benefits under the Scheme in any year by reason of satisfying both —
a criterion or the criteria specified in item 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 in the first column of Part 1, 2 or 3 of the Schedule; and (b)being on ComCare Long Term Assistance, each cash grant which that individual is eligible to receive for a benefit period in that year will be an amount of —
for a benefit period in the years 2016 to 2020 (both years inclusive) — $300; (d)for a benefit period in the years 2021 to 2024 (both years inclusive) — $360; and
for a benefit period in the year 2025 or later — $430.
Subregulation 5
Despite paragraphs (1) to (4), where an individual becomes an eligible individual in any year (called the first year) and continues to be an eligible individual in the next year (called the second year), and any of the individual’s 4 benefit periods for the first year overlaps with any of the individual’s 4 benefit periods for the second year —
the individual is entitled to only one cash grant for each overlapping benefit period; and
the amount of the cash grant for each overlapping benefit period will be the higher of the following amounts:
the amount of the cash grant which the individual is eligible to receive in the first year;
the amount of the cash grant which the individual is eligible to receive in the second year.
Subregulation 6
Despite paragraphs (3) and (4), where an individual ceases to be an eligible individual after the individual’s first 4 benefit periods, the individual is eligible to receive, for each of the individual’s first 4 benefit periods, a cash grant of the amount which the individual is eligible to receive in the year the individual becomes an eligible individual.