Singapore Budget 2018 affecting HDB households

What are they?

1. Enhanced Proximity Housing Grant (PHG) for Living With/ Near Parents or Married Child
2. S&C (service and conservancy) charges rebate – extend for another year
3. U-Save rebate additional $20 per year for 3 years (2019 to 2021).

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Enhanced Proximity Housing Grant (PHG)

Source: ChannelNewsAsia video screen capture with modification.

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HDB households S&C (service and conservancy) charges rebate extended for another year

3-rm flat = 2.5 months

Source: MOF (Ministry of Finance, Singapore)

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U-Save rebate

Who can get the 2018 GST Voucher?

Only HDB households are eligible for the GST Voucher –​ U-Save. To receive the GST Voucher – U-Save (which will be credited to your HDB flat’s utilities account), your household h​as to fulfill the following conditions:

1. If you own and live in your HDB flat, there must be at least one Singapore citizen owner or occupier in the flat; or
2. If you partially sublet the HDB flat that you own and live in, there must be at least one Singapore citizen owner or occupier in the flat; or
3. If the entire flat is sublet to you, there must be at least one Singaporean tenant;

   AND
   Immediate family members living in the same flat must not own or have any interest in more than one property.

Each flat will receive only 1 GST Voucher − U-Save benefit, based on the HDB flat type.​ ​​

*As announced in Budget 2018, eligible households will receive an additional $20 per year from 2019 to 2021, which will be paid out in quarterly tranches.

Source: (GST Voucher, GOV)