Budget 2021: Support for low-wage workers, lower-income families, children with special needs and charities Toggle share menu
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SINGAPORE: Measures to strengthen the “social compact” and support Singaporeans who have been more badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic were announced by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Tuesday (Feb 16).
“To strengthen our social compact, we must work together to address the challenges faced by the more vulnerable members of our society,” he said in his Budget speech, highlighting lower-wage workers, lower-income families and children with special needs as groups that need more support.
MSF and SG Enable to create 1,200 job opportunities for people with disabilities in 2021 Toggle share menu
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29 Jan 2021 05:03PM (Updated:
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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) and SG Enable are aiming to create 1,200 job opportunities for people with disabilities this year, said the ministry in a news release on Friday (Jan 29).
These will include employment, traineeship and skills upgrading opportunities under three types of programmes which were announced by Social and Family Development Minister Masagos Zulkifli.
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The three programmes, which will support 150 opportunities for a start, are: Place-and-Train, Attach-and-Train and Skills Development Programmes.