CDC vouchers: some retailers excluded from scheme despite repeated appeals

[True Believer]

Since 2024, Ms Cyndy Kumuo has tried – and failed – four times to get her shop accepted by the Community Development Council (CDC) voucher scheme. She was told that her shop’s location is not within an eligible area, even though other similar businesses nearby have been authorised to accept the vouchers.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...d from scheme,being in the same neighbourhood.

 

[True Believer]

This is life in S'pore under the PAP

 

[myfoot123]

Since 2024, Ms Cyndy Kumuo has tried – and failed – four times to get her shop accepted by the Community Development Council (CDC) voucher scheme. She was told that her shop’s location is not within an eligible area, even though other similar businesses nearby have been authorised to accept the vouchers.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/cdc-vouchers-scheme-retailers-inconsistency-excluded-heartland-essential-services-5332431#:~:text=Singapore-,CDC vouchers a bitter pill for retailers excluded from scheme,being in the same neighbourhood.

As long as your shop is inside a shopping center or a mall, you are not considered heartlanders shops. So, you cannot compare your shop to those in the HDB just few meters away.

 

[jsctan]

The govt had now gone very very double standard. It's all 65% sinkies fault giving blank cheque. One day will happen to you too.