Your Citizenship is Worth $4,511 More Than a PR Per Year

[SNAblog]

http://www.salary.sg/2009/your-citizenship-is-worth-4511-more-than-a-pr-per-year/

Your Citizenship is Worth $4,511 More Than a PR Per Year
October 31st, 2009

According to our calculations, your citizenship is worth $4,511 more than permanent residents per year. For that, you have to serve NS if you are male, and watch some of your PR friends sell their HDBs for a good profit and then return to their (sometimes) cheaper home countries to enjoy retirement.


As a Singapore citizen, here’s what you enjoy (reference: ST, 24 Oct 2009):

• Child birth. If you stay in a Class B2+ ward, you pay $475. For PR, it’s $506, which is $31 more. The average Singapore woman has about 1 child and will thus get the $10,000 baby bonus (we ignore the fact that she will have to split the bonus with her husband). Spread over 20 years of providing for the child, the baby bonus amounts to $500 per year. Total child birth benefit: $31 + $500 = $531/yr.
• Childcare subsidy. Singaporean working mum gets a $300/mth subsidy while PRs get nothing. Total childcare benefit: $3,600/yr.
• School fees. PRs pay $2,884 more than Singaporeans per child for the 16 years of education all the way to university. This is $180/yr.
• Marriage fees. Insignificant.
• Housing. Though PRs are not eligible to buy new flats, many Singaporeans also do not buy new flats. Since both citizens and PRs are eligible to buy resale flats, for ease of comparison, we will treat housing benefit as insignificant.
• Health subsidies. Citizens get about 10% more subsidy than PRs. Assuming that an average citizen spends $20k over 10 years, this 10% difference amounts to $200/yr.

Grand total: $4,511 per year. Note that if you’re single, it would be just $200 per year.


No wonder the ST reporter Zakir Hussain said “the distinctions between citizens and PRs could not have been clearer.”

 

[Ramseth]

http://www.salary.sg/2009/your-citizenship-is-worth-4511-more-than-a-pr-per-year/

Your Citizenship is Worth $4,511 More Than a PR Per Year
October 31st, 2009

According to our calculations, your citizenship is worth $4,511 more than permanent residents per year. For that, you have to serve NS if you are male, and watch some of your PR friends sell their HDBs for a good profit and then return to their (sometimes) cheaper home countries to enjoy retirement.


As a Singapore citizen, here’s what you enjoy (reference: ST, 24 Oct 2009):

• Child birth. If you stay in a Class B2+ ward, you pay $475. For PR, it’s $506, which is $31 more. The average Singapore woman has about 1 child and will thus get the $10,000 baby bonus (we ignore the fact that she will have to split the bonus with her husband). Spread over 20 years of providing for the child, the baby bonus amounts to $500 per year. Total child birth benefit: $31 + $500 = $531/yr.
• Childcare subsidy. Singaporean working mum gets a $300/mth subsidy while PRs get nothing. Total childcare benefit: $3,600/yr.
• School fees. PRs pay $2,884 more than Singaporeans per child for the 16 years of education all the way to university. This is $180/yr.
• Marriage fees. Insignificant.
• Housing. Though PRs are not eligible to buy new flats, many Singaporeans also do not buy new flats. Since both citizens and PRs are eligible to buy resale flats, for ease of comparison, we will treat housing benefit as insignificant.
• Health subsidies. Citizens get about 10% more subsidy than PRs. Assuming that an average citizen spends $20k over 10 years, this 10% difference amounts to $200/yr.

Grand total: $4,511 per year. Note that if you’re single, it would be just $200 per year.


No wonder the ST reporter Zakir Hussain said “the distinctions between citizens and PRs could not have been clearer.”

Minus full-time NS and reservist callups, troubling, mothers, sisters and wives etc. to take care of things and wash army uniforms, losing job, project or promotion opportunities, worth how much?

I don't mind PRs coming to work here. They can enjoy no-NS and keep their home citizenship. They can be paid and earn all that they're worth. But I'm against any subsidy for PR, including childbirth, childcare, school and healthcare. There should be zero subsidy, unless the PR parents are willing register the child as Singapore citizen at birth, then full subsidy.

 

[johnny333]

For some SM,MM its worth millions

 

[Watchman]

They make a joke out of Singapore's citizenship !

 

[makapaaa]

The CB conveniently forgets that the loss arising from the loss of your life during NS, and educational and job opportunities given to FTrash is INVALUABLE! *PTUI*

 

[woofy]

How about paying the PRs $4511.00 each to serve 2 years (2 and a half years my time) full time NS, followed by reservist training for the rest of their useful lifespan ?
The PAP FT and PR policies are tailored to secure their political hold on the people; not for the good of the country like what they claimed. It is a short term strategy of conning a generation to believe them for a period of time; just like some conman selling 'magic stones' to old folks; they just need to cheat a sustantial number of people a while into believing them, and when the day come for the FT and PR see their true color, they can leave the country and then another lot of stupid fools will be let in to support their political goals. True blood singaporean are not important to them, whoever support them can be made a citizen and whoever oppose them should better leave the country or meet their fate.

 

[cass888]

Typical of the MONGREL who bit his masters' hands LOUDHAILER chee soon juan.

Without going much deeper something already shouts out - citizens who buy resale flats get an HDB grant.

And of course they don't even realise the value of a Singapore passport - hassle free clearance at most countries.

http://www.salary.sg/2009/your-citizenship-is-worth-4511-more-than-a-pr-per-year/

Your Citizenship is Worth $4,511 More Than a PR Per Year
October 31st, 2009

According to our calculations, your citizenship is worth $4,511 more than permanent residents per year. For that, you have to serve NS if you are male, and watch some of your PR friends sell their HDBs for a good profit and then return to their (sometimes) cheaper home countries to enjoy retirement.


As a Singapore citizen, here’s what you enjoy (reference: ST, 24 Oct 2009):

• Child birth. If you stay in a Class B2+ ward, you pay $475. For PR, it’s $506, which is $31 more. The average Singapore woman has about 1 child and will thus get the $10,000 baby bonus (we ignore the fact that she will have to split the bonus with her husband). Spread over 20 years of providing for the child, the baby bonus amounts to $500 per year. Total child birth benefit: $31 + $500 = $531/yr.
• Childcare subsidy. Singaporean working mum gets a $300/mth subsidy while PRs get nothing. Total childcare benefit: $3,600/yr.
• School fees. PRs pay $2,884 more than Singaporeans per child for the 16 years of education all the way to university. This is $180/yr.
• Marriage fees. Insignificant.
• Housing. Though PRs are not eligible to buy new flats, many Singaporeans also do not buy new flats. Since both citizens and PRs are eligible to buy resale flats, for ease of comparison, we will treat housing benefit as insignificant.
• Health subsidies. Citizens get about 10% more subsidy than PRs. Assuming that an average citizen spends $20k over 10 years, this 10% difference amounts to $200/yr.

Grand total: $4,511 per year. Note that if you’re single, it would be just $200 per year.


No wonder the ST reporter Zakir Hussain said “the distinctions between citizens and PRs could not have been clearer.”