National Day Rally: Gov't to provide up to $6,000 aid to jobless workers under new scheme 

Workers, for their part, must go for training, amongst others.

Lower- and middle-income workers who have lost their jobs will receive temporary financial assistance of up to $6,000 from the government under the new SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support scheme.

The financial support will cover a period of up to six months.

The scheme will help those who “become involuntarily unemployed, for example, when they are retrenched or when their companies go bust,” said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in his first National Day Rally speech.

In exchange, workers given financial support must go for training, career coaching and job-matching services. 

“This is the essence of our renewed social compact. We will have your back, we will stand by you, but you too must take responsibility for your actions and make an effort to pull yourself up,” Wong said.

Minister for Manpower Tan See Lenmg will provide more details about the scheme in “due course.”