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An Extract From Today News paper, Singapore, Dt 31March2007 - 01April2007
Madam Lim Gek Neo was resting on her single-bed frame — she does not have a mattress — before deciding what to cook for the day. The 74-year-old had walked for 25 minutes to get home after her polyclinic consultation. The previous day, she had cooked fish bought from the wet market. Lunch was one side of the fish — which was the size of a child’s palm — and dinner, the other side. To supplement the meal, there was rice, since several packets had been donated to her. Mdm Lim, who has diabetes, knows she should not be eating too much rice. “But I won’t feel full because I don’t have much of anything else to eat,” she grumbled in Cantonese.
Madam Lim scrimp to survive on public assistance of $260 a month — a sum that will be raised to $290 from July.
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An Extract From Today News paper, Singapore, Dt 31March2007 - 01April2007
Madam Lim Gek Neo was resting on her single-bed frame — she does not have a mattress — before deciding what to cook for the day. The 74-year-old had walked for 25 minutes to get home after her polyclinic consultation. The previous day, she had cooked fish bought from the wet market. Lunch was one side of the fish — which was the size of a child’s palm — and dinner, the other side. To supplement the meal, there was rice, since several packets had been donated to her. Mdm Lim, who has diabetes, knows she should not be eating too much rice. “But I won’t feel full because I don’t have much of anything else to eat,” she grumbled in Cantonese.
Madam Lim scrimp to survive on public assistance of $260 a month — a sum that will be raised to $290 from July.
There are currently about 3,000 households on PA in Singapore. These people have been deemed unfit for work due to illness, old age or disability, and there is no one to support them. The official numbers have not changed much since 2002, although charities insist that more areknocking on their doors. “We feel our burden is getting heavier over the years because thereare more and more elderly,” president of the Singapore Buddhist Lodge Lee Bock Guan told TODAY.
A bigger allowance would also allow 74-year-old Mdm Lim to take a bus to her polyclinic. Right now, “walking does not cost anything and then I have money for food”, she said matter-of-factly. But her eyesight is failing fast and, soon, long walks may be beyond her.
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