More regular Medisave payments, injury insurance among moves for self-employed
Govt also accepts tripartite standard; businesses that adopt it must be committed to uphold it
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Janice Heng
Singapore
SELF-EMPLOYED persons should make Medisave contributions as they earn, instead of annually. Corporate service-buyers and intermediaries that link the self-employed with clients - such as ride-hailing platform Grab - should also be required to help deduct and transmit these Medisave contributions.
These are among several recommendations by a tripartite workgroup that the government has accepted, with details to come in next month's Committee of Supply debate.
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