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Hardwarezone Forum, 7 Jul 2014 My uncle passed away not too long ago, leaving behind my aunty and my two teenage cousins. He had been the sole breadwinner of the household so it hasn't been easy on my aunty who is still in grief and now has to support her two children by herself. My uncle had named her as the sole nominee to his CPF money prior to his death. This means that upon his demise, his

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Sgpolitics.net, 24 Jun 2014 Firstly, Mr Lim said that people should use less of their CPF money when they are young, and they should also try to defer drawing down their CPF when they reach the age of 55. These statements were made in BOTH the original press interview as well as the clarification that he later sent to the media (see here). However, Mr Lim also asserts that the CPF is for housing

The Real Singapore, 15 Jun 2014 PAP MP Hri Kumar's CPF dialogue event had drawn a lot of online attention, particularly since a video of a 76 year old's pleas to Hri Kumar was recorded and shared widely online. However, netizens have also noticed one particularly rude lady in the audience, dressed in a white cheongsam, who kept trying to stop the 76 year old aunty from talking and was motioning

Comment: Did I just heard Hri Kumar says (@ 0:34) that most people prefer to keep their money in the CPF because it pays higher interest rate? Youtube.com, 14 Jun 2014 Link Related: VIDEO: 76-year-old lady tearfully begged Hri Kumar in a public forum to help get her CPF money back as PAP grassroots volunteers tried to shut her up

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Yahoo! News Singapore, 7 Jun 2014 Thousands of Singaporeans attended the �Return Our CPF� protest held at Hong Lim Park on Saturday, calling for greater transparency and flexibility in the CPF system. By 5pm, more than 2,000 dotted the green in the area surrounding the stage, with scores more hiding from the sun in the surrounding shaded footpaths, field areas and even a nearby overhead bridge.

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Yahoo! News Singapore, 2 Jun 2014 Up to 2,000 people are expected to attend the #ReturnOurCPF protest happening on Saturday at Hong Lim Park, according to sole organiser Han Hui Hui during a press conference on Wednesday. The 23-year-old activist and blogger also announced that human rights lawyer M Ravi, Reform Party member Prabu Ramachandran and former Singapore Democratic Party member Vincent

Rethinking the Rice Bowl, 5 Jun 2014 In an extraordinary turn of events the State Times published a letter in its Forum page yesterday from Temasek Holdings. It seems that last Saturday ST published an article (�Ways to improve CPF�) which quoted an unnamed person as saying he suspected the Central Provident Fund Minimum Sum was raised �because Temasek or GIC lost money overseas�. ( See more at:

Atans1.wordpress.com, 5 Jun 2014 There is a provision in the law governing the CPF Life Plans which states that payouts are contingent on the Plans being solvent. This is because premiums that are paid in to get the annuities are pooled and collectively invested. If the plan you chose doesn�t have enough money to pay out, you die. This is unlike the [Minimum Sum] scheme, where account holders are

Asingaporean.blogspot.sg, 29 May 2014 The CPF is NEVER safe on a day when: 1) The government refused to be transparent and provide relevant information freely and rightfully to the people. 2) The same people with track records of a monkey continues to handle investments funded by public money and be made accountable for their mistakes. 3) The CPF board continues to shift their goal posts as and

Singaporealternative.blogspot.sg, 1 Jun 2014 There are already quite a lot of articles written by bloggers, Facebook users and internet forummers on this CPF issue. We are beginning to converge to agree on a few fundamental points: 1) Nobody in his right mind would have put money into CPF for its promise of "guaranteed" return of a meager 2.5% to 4% when it could just change the rules on when and

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