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5.15 I will reduce the monthly Foreign Domestic Worker Levy by $30 from 1st July 2007. This will benefit one in every six households in Singapore, which currently employs a foreign maid. It will be particularly helpful for families that need a maid to help take care of dependents.
5.16 I have also decided to extend the Foreign Domestic Worker Levy Concession which currently only applies to those with young children and elderly parents, to employers with disabled family members, in other words, where there are disabled family members, or the employers are themselves disabled and need additional care-giving support. This will take effect from 1st November 2007. The Foreign Domestic Worker Levy changes will cost the Government $75 million a year. More details on the qualifying criteria for the extension of the concession to those with disabilities will be announced by the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports.
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