What is it?
Course Fee and Absentee Payroll Funding are available for employers who sponsor employees for training.
Table 1: Course Fee Funding for SSG-approved courses for Employers (as of 12 Sep 2022)
| Courses offered by SSG-appointed CET Centres | Funding Support |
|---|---|
| Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) | Up to 70% of course fees |
| SCs aged ≥ 40 years old (SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy) |
Up to 90% of course fees |
| Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) (Enhanced Training Support for SMEs) |
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| Persons With Disabilities (PwDs) – SCs and PRs (Only for eligible courses supported by SG Enable. For more information on Skills and Training Support for PwDs, please refer to Enabling Academy by SG Enable) |
Up to 95% of course fees |
| Certifiable courses | Funding Support |
| Courses conducted by external training providers | |
| SCs and PRs | Up to 50% of course fees |
| SCs aged ≥ 40 years old (SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy) |
Up to 70% of course fees |
| SMEs (Enhanced Training Support for SMEs) |
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| In-house certifiable training | |
| SCs and PRs | $7 per hour |
| SMEs (Enhanced Training Support for SMEs) |
$15 per hour |
| Non-certifiable courses | Funding Support |
| All SCs and PRs | $2 per hour |
Notes
1. To enjoy course fee funding, you may enrol your employee directly with SSG’s CET Centres or training providers delivering SSG-supported courses. You will only need to pay the net course fee (full course fee after SSG’s grant). To check if a course is supported by SSG, click here.
2. SSG will stop funding non-certifiable courses and in-house training after 31 December 2024. For more details, please refer to the following updates on TPGateway here:
Table 2: Absentee Payroll Funding for SSG-approved courses for Employers (as of 1 Jul 2023)
| Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents | Singapore Citizens aged 30 and above (or Persons with Special Needs aged 13 and above), earning a monthly salary ≤$2,500 (Workfare Skills Support) |
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|---|---|---|
| Courses offered by SSG-appointed CET Centres and SSG-supported certifiable courses | $4.50 per hour, capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year | 95% of hourly basic salary, capped at $13 per hour |
Notes
1. For training conducted outside working hours, AP funding is given to the employers to defray the overtime pay that was paid to their employees. Hence to qualify for AP funding, employers must have in place a Human Resource (HR) policy which provides for the payment of overtime pay to employees for these training hours and pay their employees overtime pay for these hours, in accordance with the HR policy. Allowance, stipulated by MOM, to be paid to employees for training conducted outside working hours, can be considered in lieu of overtime pay. The amount of allowance to be paid to the employees must be in accordance with the rate(s) set out in the MOM’s website ( https://www.mom.gov.sg/faq/salary/if-i-have-to-attend-training-outside-normal-working-hours-can-i-be-paid-for-it).
2. AP funding for courses offered by SSG-appointed CET Centres include eligible courses supported by SG Enable for PwDs but exclude sheltered workshops. For more information on Skills and Training Support for PwDs, please refer to Enabling Academy by SG Enable.
3. Absentee payroll (AP) will be granted and disbursed for only a single period of time regardless of the number of courses a trainee would have attended concurrently during the same period. In the event that an employer-sponsored trainee attends multiple concurrent courses during the same period, the AP funding disbursed to the employers may be adjusted accordingly to ensure that only one form of wage compensation (this includes absentee payroll, training allowance and salary support) is disbursed for a single period of time.