Char_Azn
I take offence if you are addressing me with your;
"If U suka suka stretch here and there, even if a person makes the minimum sum by making concessions for them"
Did I raised any suka suka concession with regards to the Special or Ordinary accounts ?
The request is to be more realistic in the minimum sum target to cater for the low wage earners.
As it stand in 2010 only 40.7% of people who reached 55 (active CPF members) meet the minimum sum.
What happen to the rest of the 60%, is it not their projection a little steep and unrealisitic.
http://mycpf.cpf.gov.sg/NR/rdonlyres/CD1DED5D-D69E-4180-B190-A78DEC1FCD77/0/CPFTrends_MSS.pdf
Is it not the current minimum sum not a realistic representation of the population able to meet that target ?
From early 1995 the MS was set at $30K till now 2011 it is $131K it has increased exponentially.
Do our salary in 1995 increased at such pace and proportion that is roughly 4.37 times for everyone across the board in 16 years ?
Do you expect an admin staff or technician that earns $1,000.00 in 1995 to earn $4,370 today ?
What I know is that HDB and medical cost have increase rather alarmingly as such one would see most of their funds being depleted by these 2 major items.
So in your opinion you would rather say "Yes its depleted lets increase further the minimum sum"
or acknowledged the system is squeezing blood out of a rock.
With regards to the Medisave, what is suggested is only natural and logical as Preventive measures is better than any
Maintenance/Repair works. You claimed to work in a mining company and should be very familiar with safety issues.
If you screen earlier you detect illnesses earlier and the cost is cheaper and treatment is easier.
Similarly to dental care, if the aged can eat better they will live a healthier life.
The co-payment part, why make the people suffer to source for the funding when they have the money in there to subscribed to the coverage and it is our money to begin with and it is not that much. But, to the poor it means 2 months of loan payment.