Debate on Annual Budget 2012

Five recommendations for consideration to further improve the Budget provisions that includes - making Special Employment Credit (SEC) permanent for the elderly and the disabled; expansion of the Special Employment Credit to cover more persons with disabilities (PWDs); strengthening of Singapore’s progressive personal taxation structure; reviewing the defence expenditure as one source to fund the transfers; and establishing an agency to focus and nurture local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

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Community, Parliament, MPDenise Phua
Motion on Inclusive Growth

“Instead of putting a brake on our economic growth which we need, let us sharpen the current initiatives like Workfare and CET and to include other vulnerable groups like the disabled so that none will be left behind and that everyone has a chance to contribute and benefit from the economic growth.”

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