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Written Answer by Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Manpower, to Parliamentary Question on number of households qualified for FDW levy concession under aged person scheme

Foreign manpower

NOTICE PAPER NO. 1714 OF 2019 FOR THE SITTING ON 8 JULY 2019 
QUESTION NO. 1286 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Sitoh Yih Pin

To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) in 2017 and 2018 respectively, how many households with a 65-year-old family member were qualified for the foreign domestic worker levy concession under the aged person scheme; (b) how many of those households had utilised the concession; and (c) following the increase of the qualifying age to 67 years old on 1 April 2019, how does the current proportion of qualified households compare with those in (a).  

Answer

  1. As of end May 2019, 69,251 households with a foreign domestic worker (FDW) were given the FDW levy concession under the aged person scheme. This is considerably higher than the 65,541 and 61,811 households in 2018 and 2017 respectively. Levy concession was granted automatically to all eligible households1  which had applied for and were allowed to employ a FDW. 
 

FOOTNOTE

  1. Provided the employer of the FDW and the elderly family member are staying at the same registered address