Step By Step Guide To Redeeming Your CDC Vouchers
In the Singapore Budget 2025, PM Lawrence Wong announced a new tranche of CDC Vouchers worth $800. This will be split into two disbursements – with $500 in CDC Vouchers given in May 2025 and the remaining $300 CDC Vouchers given in January 2026. For clarity, this is a new disbursement, separate from the recent […]
Matched Retirement Savings Scheme: How Seniors Can Get Dollar-For-Dollar Matching To Boost Their CPF Balances
Singapore’s CPF system ensures that working Singaporeans and Permanent Residents set aside a portion of their monthly earnings, forming the foundation for monthly payouts during retirement. A monthly payout is provided through CPF LIFE. To provide a reference baseline, the government sets (and regularly reviews) milestone levels for our CPF savings: the Basic Retirement Sum […]
5 Expenses In Malaysia That Go Up In 2025
Every year, the government would review its tax or subsidy schemes and make changes accordingly to ensure that they are executed in a way that best benefits the nation and its people. On 18 October 2024, the Malaysian government had presented the National Budget, where it announced changes in certain rates for year 2025. In […]
Singapore Budget 2025: 5 Major Announcements That Will Benefit The Average Singaporean
In a 100-minute speech, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mr. Lawrence Wong unveiled a series of key announcements for Singapore Budget 2025. The updates came in rapid succession, so much so that our writer could barely keep up with our Live Update Singapore Budget 2025 coverage. With so much to unpack, where do we […]
[Live Updates] Singapore Budget 2025: Live Coverage And Real-Time Commentary
Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Lawrence Wong, will delivered the Singapore Budget 2025 Statement in Parliament on Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 3.30pm. This was his first Budget as Prime Minister of Singapore. We covered the Singapore Budget 2025, titled Onward Together For A Better Tomorrow, live – highlighting the major announcements and potential implications that […]
How Much Your MediShield Life Premiums Will Be Going Up From April 2025
Introduced in 2015, MediShield Life provides Singaporean with universal and lifelong basic protection against large hospital bills – with the aim to cover 9 in 10 subsidised bills in public healthcare institution, with the deductible and co-insurance covered by MediSave. MediShield Life is an integral part of Singapore’s healthcare financing framework: the “S+3Ms” (Subsidies, MediSave, […]
Guide To Understanding How COE Bidding System Works In Singapore
In Singapore, all vehicles must be registered with a Certificate of Entitlement (COE). Introduced in 1990, the COE bidding system helps regulate and prevent the overpopulation of vehicles in Singapore. Once you register your vehicle, the COE will be valid for 10 years from the registration date. COE bidding is conducted twice a month. It […]
Guide To HDB’s Home Improvement Programme (HIP)
If you have been looking to buy a resale flat or are living in an older HDB flat, you may be familiar with HDB’s Home Improvement Programme (HIP). With several of Singapore’s HDB estates passing the 50-year mark, it is inevitable that some refurbishment and maintenance is needed for the flats in these estates to […]
RBA poised, China tech booms, Japan GDP sizzles – Feb 18 2025
Today’s Market News HK comments leave the door open to use of cryptocurrencies as proof of wealth Indonesia books $3.45 billion trade surplus in January after weak imports India eyes to boost trade with US; January trade deficit as expected Japan braces for BOJ to lift rates sooner and higher China’s Xi holds rare meet […]
Should You Sell Your HDB Flat For A (Smaller) New Launch Condominium?
Considered one of the 5Cs of Singapore, owning a condominium remains an aspirational goal for many Singaporeans. Beyond offering amenities like a gym and swimming pool—features that can be particularly appealing to families—condominiums also serve as a subtle marker of socioeconomic status. Just like the car you drive, the career you have, or even the […]
