Discrepancy between Amount Budgeted for Voucher Schemes and Actual Amount Disbursed

Debated in Parliament on 14 Oct 2025.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim inquired about the discrepancies between the budgeted and actual disbursed amounts for various nationwide voucher schemes from 2019 to 2024.
Jeffrey Siow emphasized that the effectiveness of voucher schemes should be evaluated based on overall utilization rates rather than annual budget utilization.
Utilization rates for different voucher schemes varied significantly, with some programs like the Community Development Council Vouchers exceeding 90% usage, while others like the Climate Friendly Households Programme Vouchers had only 23% utilization.
The SG60 vouchers were noted to have been issued only in the current year, indicating a recent addition to the voucher schemes.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim

Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for each of the fiscal years 2019 to 2024, what was the discrepancy between the amount budgeted for nationwide vouchers, for example, CDC, Climate, SG60, and the amount eventually disbursed.

Jeffrey Siow

The voucher schemes introduced by the Government over the past few years serve different policy objectives.

To assess the take-up of our voucher schemes, it is more meaningful to look at the overall utilisation of the schemes across their validity periods, rather than the budget utilisation for each Financial Year. The overall utilisation varies from 23% for the Climate Friendly Households Programme Vouchers in Phase 1, 56% for the SingapoRediscovers Vouchers, to over 90% for Community Development Council Vouchers issued up to 2024. SG60 vouchers were only issued this year.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim inquired about the discrepancies between the budgeted and actual disbursed amounts for various nationwide voucher schemes from 2019 to 2024.
Jeffrey Siow emphasized that the effectiveness of voucher schemes should be evaluated based on overall utilization rates rather than annual budget utilization.
Utilization rates for different voucher schemes varied significantly, with some programs like the Community Development Council Vouchers exceeding 90% usage, while others like the Climate Friendly Households Programme Vouchers had only 23% utilization.
The SG60 vouchers were noted to have been issued only in the current year, indicating a recent addition to the voucher schemes.

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Discrepancy between Amount Budgeted for Voucher Schemes and Actual Amount Disbursed

Debated in Parliament on 14 Oct 2025.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim inquired about the discrepancies between the budgeted and actual disbursed amounts for various nationwide voucher schemes from 2019 to 2024.
Jeffrey Siow emphasized that the effectiveness of voucher schemes should be evaluated based on overall utilization rates rather than annual budget utilization.
Utilization rates for different voucher schemes varied significantly, with some programs like the Community Development Council Vouchers exceeding 90% usage, while others like the Climate Friendly Households Programme Vouchers had only 23% utilization.
The SG60 vouchers were noted to have been issued only in the current year, indicating a recent addition to the voucher schemes.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim

Jeffrey Siow

The voucher schemes introduced by the Government over the past few years serve different policy objectives.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim inquired about the discrepancies between the budgeted and actual disbursed amounts for various nationwide voucher schemes from 2019 to 2024.
Jeffrey Siow emphasized that the effectiveness of voucher schemes should be evaluated based on overall utilization rates rather than annual budget utilization.
Utilization rates for different voucher schemes varied significantly, with some programs like the Community Development Council Vouchers exceeding 90% usage, while others like the Climate Friendly Households Programme Vouchers had only 23% utilization.
The SG60 vouchers were noted to have been issued only in the current year, indicating a recent addition to the voucher schemes.

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Discrepancy between Amount Budgeted for Voucher Schemes and Actual Amount Disbursed

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim

Jeffrey Siow

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Discrepancy between Amount Budgeted for Voucher Schemes and Actual Amount Disbursed

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim

Jeffrey Siow

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