More low-income households to get Home Access benefits
Singapore
THE government is expanding the Home Access Programme, which provides low-income households with low-cost broadband connectivity at home, and a tablet, to benefit 16,000 households in addition to the existing 8,000 on the current programme.
Announcing this in Parliament on Monday, at the committee of supply (COS) debate for the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI), Janil Puthucheary, Minister of State, MCI, said that the government would also partner private sector organisations, such as POSB, NTUC FairPrice Foundation and NetLink Trust, in these efforts.
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