NUMBER OF PEOPLE USING MEDISAVE TO PAY FOR PARENTS' HEALTHCARE BILLS

7 May 2019

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Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Png Eng Huat
MP, Hougang SMC

To ask the Minister for Health in each year of the past five years, what is the number of people using MediSave to pay for their parents' healthcare cost and what is the median withdrawal value.

Answer

Over the past five years, the number of Medisave withdrawals for parents' healthcare expenses has varied between 161,000 in 2014 and 193,000 in 2018, or 9.7% and 3.8% respectively of the total number of Medisave withdrawals. The average withdrawal amount ranged between $760 in 2014 to about $440 in 2018.