workfare.gov.sg : WTS Training Support Scheme Singapore

Organization : Government of Singapore
Service Name : Workfare Training Support WTS Scheme
Country: Singapore

Website : workfare [dot] gov [dot] sg

WTS Scheme:

WTS complements WIS by encouraging Singaporean workers to attend training to improve their skills. WTS also supports employers to send their workers for training.

Related : WIS Income Supplement Scheme Singapore : www.statusin.org/26435.html

Employee:
You can benefit from 95% course fee funding for a wider range of courses when you sign up for any of these courses:
** Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ). All WSQ courses are supported under the WTS scheme. Please click here to see the list of CET Centres offering WSQ courses and their contact details.

** Part-time ITE Skills Certificate, Part-time NITEC and Part-time Higher NITEC courses offered by the Institute of Technical Education (ITE). Please contact ITE directly to find out more on course details.

** Part-time Diploma,Advanced Diploma, Specialist Diploma and Diploma (Conversion) programmes offered by the five local Polytechnics.

Please contact the polytechnics directly to find out more on course details:
** Nanyang Polytechnic Professional Development Centre
** Ngee Ann Polytechnic CET Academy
** Republic Polytechnic Academy for Continuing Education@RP
** Singapore Polytechnic PACE Academy
** Temasek Polytechnic Professional Development Centre

Certifiable Skills Training courses accredited or supported by Skills Future Singapore (SSG). Please visit Skills Connect to see the list of eligible courses.

Who can qualify?:
From 2017, you will qualify if you:
** are a Singapore citizen;
** are aged 35 years and above on 31 December of the work year (aged 13 years and above for persons with disabilities);
** earn an average gross monthly income of not more $2,000 for the month worked (previously $1,900); and
** have signed up for any WTS qualifying courses.

How to apply?:
There is a two-step process for course fee funding support, comprising the application stage and claim stage. For courses conducted by CET Centres and Post-Secondary Education Institutions (PSEI), you can apply for course fee funding support directly at these training providers. You will need to pay the nett 5% of course fee as well as the GST for the full course fees by the course provider.

1. WSG Career Centres or e2i centres at the different regions
2. Self-Help Groups
a. Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA)
b. Yayasan Mendaki

When signing up for training or applying for funding, please bring along these documents:
National Registration Identification Card (NRIC); and

Any of the following documents:
** WTS notification letter;
** Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) notification letter;
** Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) tax notification letter;
** SingPost receipt for CPF income declaration (for tax-exempted sole-proprietors / self-employed only); or
** Any one month’s payslip or Employment Letter / Contract of Service dated not more than 3 months before course registration date

Self Employed :
Lower training costs and more training choices :
Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ):
** All WSQ courses are supported under the WTS scheme. Please click here to see the list of CET Centres offering WSQ courses and their contact details.

** Part-time ITE Skills Certificate, Part-time NITEC and Part-time Higher NITEC courses offered by the Institute of Technical Education (ITE).
** Part-time Diploma, Advanced Diploma, Specialist Diploma and Diploma (Conversion) programmes offered by the five local Polytechnics.

** Nanyang Polytechnic Academy of Lifelong Learning & Skills (ALLS)
** Ngee Ann Polytechnic CET Academy
** Republic Polytechnic Academy for Continuing Education@RP
** Certifiable Skills Training courses accredited or supported by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG).

Who can qualify?
From 2017, you will qualify if you :
** are a Singapore citizen;
** are aged 35 years and above on 31 December of the work year (aged 13 years and above for persons with disabilities);

** earn an average gross monthly income of not more $2,000 for the month worked (previously $1,900); and
** have signed up for any WTS qualifying courses.

How to apply?
** There is a two-step process for course fee funding support, comprising the application stage and the claim stage.
** For courses conducted by CET Centres and Post-Secondary Education Institutions (PSEI), you can apply for course fee funding support directly at these training providers.

** You will need to pay the nett 5% of course fee as well as the GST for the full course fees by the course provider.