All posts tagged "retirement"
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667Headlines80-Year-old Adam Road Cleaner Uncle Dies of Heart Attack while Having a Short Rest
It was 8.30am on a Wednesday (20 Jul) and 80-year-old Uncle Wong was in the midst of work as a cleaner at...
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462HeadlinesCardboard Ah Ma Killed while Exercising after Reversing Taxi Hits Her Twice
She was looking for cardboard behind a coffeeshop next to an open-air yesterday when tragedy struck. A Comfort taxi, that was reversing...
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760HeadlinesWhy Does CPF Need My Wife’s CPF Savings to Last for 128 Years?
PHAN PANG CHIA: Recently, the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board informed my wife that she will be able to start withdrawing a...
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618Cow Beh Cow BuPolice Acknowledge that a Cardboard Aunty Collects Such Junk for “Exercise” Purposes
HAROLD CHAI: Oh look at these lazy cardboard aunties. So old already, don’t know how to get a proper job, whole day...
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455HeadlinesHow about Paying S$3500 a Month to Stay in this Attas Singapore Old Folks’ Home?
To pay or not to pay, that is the question – whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the ignominy of...
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444Cow Beh Cow BuRaising the CPF Ceiling: Worth it to Lose S$200 Every Month in Exchange for S$60K More Retirement Savings?
While many of you were hoping that the Budget 2015 speech would be filled with SG50 style freebies, Mr Tharman instead announced...
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595Cow Beh Cow BuStop Making Singaporeans Beg for Our Hard-Earned CPF Money!
CPF is the people’s money, a life time of savings. What makes the few elected individuals think they have the right to...
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462Cow Beh Cow BuWhat Retirement? Singapore’s Older Workers Stay on the Job!
Everyone calls her Auntie Helen. At 69, she’s one of the oldest employees at the food court at Raffles Place in Singapore,...
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U-PCC! 4 Things the CPF Fails at, Summed Up by Dollars And Sense
Local online financial publication DollarsAndSense recently attended one of the focus group discussions held by the Central Provident Fund (CPF) to understand...
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9872Cow Beh Cow BuSingaporeans, Wise Up and Stop Being Fooled by the PAP’s Cheap Antics and Big Talk
Singaporeans have been fooled by the PAP for five decades. We have mistakenly thought a blank cheque given to the PAP was...
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475HeadlinesExpected: Higher CPF Minimum Sum, Different Minimum Sum Amount for Different Folks
The Singapore government might implement a system where different groups of Singaporeans maintain different Minimum Sums in their CPF, according to their...
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449HeadlinesSingapore’s Manpower Ministry Wants to Make YOU Work till You’re 67 Years Old
Manpower Minister Tan Chuan Jin says the government is looking to introduce a new law which will increase the re-employment age to...
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2.4KCow Beh Cow Bu7 Reasons Why Singapore’s CPF System is Broken as a Retirement Solution
Many CPF members feel cheated and have rightly blamed the PAP government for causing our retirement shortfall. The PAP must stop tweaking...
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894Cow Beh Cow BuS$1.2 Million Needed to Retire in Singapore; the Highest in Southeast Asia
A poll by insurer AIA has found that Singaporeans believe they need about S$1.2 million in savings for retirement – the highest...
