Gender Breakdown of Workfare Income Supplement Recipients in Last Three Years

Parliament of Singapore · 5 July 2021

Official Report, 5 July 2021, Vol 95, Issue 31 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

Carrie TanTan See Leng
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Ms Carrie Tan asked the Minister for Manpower in each of the last three years, what is the gender breakdown of all recipients of the Workfare Income Supplement.

Dr Tan See Leng: From 2017 to 2019, about 210,000 or half of all Workfare recipients each year were female 1 .

Note(s) to Question No(s) 84:

1 Complete data on WIS recipients in 2020 is not available yet as self-employed persons (SEPs) in 2020 can only be assessed for WIS eligibility after they have declared their net trade income for 2020 and made the necessary MediSave contributions.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 5 July 2021. Republished on SGParliament.