Singapore

FROM Mar 31, some 19,500 employers will receive the final Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) payouts, totalling over S$145 million and supporting the wages of over 289,500 local employees.

In a joint statement on Tuesday (Mar 29), the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras), Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Enterprise Singapore (ESG) said that with this payout, more than S$28.1 billion of JSS support would have been disbursed since the introduction of the scheme at the Unity Budget in February 2020.