Parliamentary QA
USE OF MEDISAVE FOR FAMILY MEMBERS
3 July 2023
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NOTICE PAPER NO. 1993
NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
FOR SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON 3 JULY 2023
Name and Constituency of Member of ParliamentMs Mariam JaafarMP for Sembawang GRC
Question No. 3085
To ask the Minister for Health (a) in the past three years, how many Singaporeans have used their Medisave for family members; and (b) of these, how many reached their Medisave withdrawal limits for family members within the year.
Answer
Between 2020 to 2022, around 180,000 to 220,000 Singapore Citizens (SCs) used their MediSave to pay for their family members’ healthcare expenses per year. These make up about 16% of SCs who used MediSave for healthcare expenses.
To encourage mutual support within the family, there are no specific MediSave withdrawal limits for one’s family members. However, such withdrawals are still subject to the treatment-specific MediSave withdrawal limits that are sized to be sufficient for subsidised patients.