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11 July 2025
Media Coverage
Care4WorkingFamilies Roundtable Media Coverage

Over the past month, Leap201’s Care4WorkingFamilies (C4W) initiative and its recommendations to enhance support for working families affected by severe disabilities and critical illness have been featured across major media platforms. Coverage highlights the gaps that working families face and proposes policy enhancements to CareShield Life.

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22 February 2024
Media Coverage
The Strait Times: Budget 2024: Let’s rethink Workfare for lower-income families and higher living costs
Increasing the cash portion and accounting for inflation and the household size can provide more financial stability.
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28 April 2023
Media Coverage
The Business Times: Reimagining Workfare to uplift low-wage families
Over the past week, we have heard some dynamic debates in Parliament on President Halimah Yacob’s Address, which emphasised the need to step up support for the disadvantaged and vulnerable segments in our society, among other priorities. From establishing an official poverty line to enhancing employment support, MPs have come forward with various proposals to empower workers to improve their lives. But to truly uplift our society, we need to bolster not just individual workers, but also their families.

The answer to this may come from the reimagination of a familiar policy — the Workfare Income Supplement (WIS).

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20 April 2023
Media Coverage
The Straits Times: NUS researchers propose ways to enhance Workfare for low-income Singaporeans and their families
As part of its Singapore Rebalanced Programme, Leap201 commissioned a research study by the National University of Singapore (NUS) to explore ways to enhance the Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) scheme in supporting lower-income workers. The study, presented at a roundtable co-organized by Leap201 and NUS, highlighted four key recommendations.
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