There are approximately about 940,000 HDB households will be eligible and will receive double their regular GST Voucher — Utilities-Save (U-Save) rebate financial year to help you to offset the utilities bills.
This is part of the Government’s Care and Support Package announced as part of Budget 2020 to help households with their expenses especially during this Covid-19 pandemic.
In case you want some example, normally, households in 1- and 2-room HDB flats get annual U-Save rebates equivalent to about 3 to 4 months of their utilities bills on average. Now, with the one-off doubling, they will now get rebates equivalent to at least 6 to 8 months of utilities bills on average, said the Ministry of Finance (MOF) in a press release.
There will also be more help for bigger households later in the year. Eligible households with five or more members will get an additional voucher rebate, receiving a total of 2.5 times their regular voucher rebate in the 2020 financial year.