ActiveSG credits: the next $$$ scandal after YOG???!!!

• bic_cherry

  24 Jun 14, 17:51

  ActiveSG credits: the next $$$ scandal after YOG???!!!
  Suspicion: Is the announcement that EVERY Singaporean/PR (above 16yrs old) will receive S$100 in value meant to deceive the statistics department that S$100 in transfers/ value has been redistributed to ALL Singaporeans when in truth, many Singaporeans are UNLIKELY to be able to utilise the S$100 in funds if they can neither swim (I.e? Will drown), build muscles (go gym) nor have extra $$$ to pay ($100 can only subsidise at 30% rate, participant pays the rest): I.e. to deceive statisticians that S$100 in subsidies had been transfered when indeed none of this was practical or even applicable to use???!!!
  Sports council should answer: in what activity can a wheel chair bound elderly use the S$100 for any form of therapy???!! Perhaps ending ones life by falling into the swimming pool might be one's only choice.
  With a citizen population of 3.31million and a PR population of 530,000, with the exclusion of children from receiving active SG benefits of S$100/pax, the total budget for the ActiveSG programme ought to be >>$300million (almost equalling YOG 
  final budget of S$387 Million, almost 4x the original budget of $104M).
  
  So did the Singapore sports council intentionally over estimate the withdrawal of ActiveSG credits, or is there a conspiracy to rig gini coefficient results for Singapore by categorising ActiveSG credits as redistributive 'subsidies' to the poor'; hopefully, the Minister/ cronies' pocket is not where the unused portion of the >>$300million goes.
  
  Perhaps all unused ActiveSG credits if left UNUSED at the end of their validity period (ends Dec 2015) should NOT be forfeited but instead transfered to each individuals medisave account since health is the ultimate beneficiary of exercise/ a healthy lifestyle.
  Otherwise, these credits could also be valid in perpetuatity (some Singaporeans are based abroad for extended durations), but also usable for healthy lifestyle related activities organised by PA (at community centres) or by SAFRA, so as to make the ActiveSG credits usable across ALL government related rights institutions and statutory bodies (Sports council establishments are too few and too widely spaced/ subject to congestion). In addition, gahmen doctor prescribed/ endorsed physical therapy sessions for handicapped/ frail/ elderly should also be claimable under ActiveSG scheme if the gahmen values the health of all (those too sick to do therapy should be allowed to spend ActiveSG credits on polyclinic/ hospital use: I.e. those with terminal illness, severe handicaps etc). The 30% activity funding limit should also be removed.
  
  More thought and accessibility to the funds needs to be implemented if the fund is to realise the noble ideal of improved health, otherwise, suspicions will arise if ActiveSG credits are yet another statistical political ponzi scheme, aiding the poor with the unobtainable, to mislead the world/ lay public by deceptively smoothering the severe inequality problem by systematically miscalculating the gini coefficient.
  
  
  

  Quote:

  The Straits Times, Published on Jun 24, 2014 Complicated process to get ActiveSG benefits WHEN ActiveSG was launched, it was touted as "an all-encompassing and inclusive national movement for sport, where all can experience the joy of living better through sport". In reality, anyone who has attempted to access its benefits would find the process unnecessarily cumbersome and anything but inclusive. From registration to activation and finally downloading a QR code for use, the entire process is time-consuming and agonising, even for an adept user of modern technology. Sport Singapore assumes that everybody is tech-savvy and has a gadget to access the benefits of ActiveSG. I cannot imagine how certain sectors of our population, such as senior citizens, can follow the tedious steps to get the $100 to be used for sports activities, much less use the money to book facilities and programmes through the ActiveSG app. Money and efforts have been spent to publicise the programme but not much seems to have been done to ensure that the benefits can be easily accessed by target users. If the Government is sincere about promoting sports and a healthy lifestyle to the man on the street, it should simplify the entire process, perhaps by issuing each eligible person a simple stored value card or something similar. I am sure more people will be encouraged to do sports when they find it easier to tap this benefit. Swee Bee Lan (Ms) Copyright © 2014 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved. http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/...efits-20140624

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• pinkcolor

  8 Jul 14, 18:33

  @ bic_cherry

  Did you realize that the contents of your post sound libellous to Sinkie gabrament?

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  1. You are currently residing in a foreign country

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  Good luck :)

• bic_cherry

  9 Jul 14, 15:11

  For the good of the ¢untry, it is okay.

  Actually I really don't mind going to court to sort the facts out, get some media exposure better still (maybe consult M Ravi for help).

  Trying to get invite to tea with maybe Tharman (pinkie might slap me, DPM Teo will ask U shout "rank, name, nric" before knock the door.)

  Unfortunately, places are all fully booked for potential coat tail MPs.

   

  So I just write and write lor.

   

  As long as I do something to help poor people I can sleep at night. If I don't, even stay Marina Bay Sands in the clouds suite: also cannot fall asleep.

   

  My motto:

  ~ Matthew 25:40: "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'"- (NIV