Eligibility of Property Renters for SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support

Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Manpower whether the criterion that an applicant to the SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support not live in a property with an annual value of more than $25,000 also applies to applicants who are renting the property in which they reside.

Dr Tan See Leng: The annual value criterion is based on the residential address of the applicant. This would include applicants who own the property and also those who are renting the property that they are residing in.

This approach is in line with the intent behind using the annual value criterion as a proxy to determine households’ means or wealth and is also aligned with the approach undertaken by other means-tested schemes like the GST Voucher scheme and the Workfare Income Supplement scheme.