Credit where credit is due

she is an only child, and currently looking for a job.

her father suffers from Parkinson's Disease and has been in the hospital for the past 2 months.
thankfully, he has some savings "stuck" in the CPF which was used to pay the substantially subsidized hospital bill.

and turns out, he has CPF Life, so he will be entitled to monthly payouts for life.

additionally, social workers were extremely pro-active in looking for possible solutions for the family, and eventually found a nursing home for the father because he now requires constant care and attention that the family can no longer provide.

the monthly bill was subsidized, again by the govt, from $1,800 a month, to a much more affordable $600 due to her circumstances.

i don't know about other nursing homes, but this nursing home houses 300 people.
and assuming an average subsidy of around $1,000, that would cost the government S$300,000 a month.
for this 1 nursing home alone.



we like to complain about authorities not doing their jobs. not caring about the poor, the needy. only caring about their fat pay checks. and when we hear stories like these, we treat it with skepticism and keep it to ourselves, or think that the govt is only doing what they are supposed to be doing.


or maybe the problem is that we just love nitpicking so we can either complain and/or feel sorry for ourselves.