This has been a scheme that have been around for a few years but I did not really knew about it till I was browsing through the CPF website a few years back.

This basically allows you to claim up to 3 days of parenthood child care leave from the government. We are granted 6 parenthood child care leave per annum but the government is only going to pay for 3 days. The awareness of this scheme is basically more applicable for those self employed. For those employed, your HR department will handle the claim.

The limit you can claim per day is $500. You can go to the CPF website and under the self employed section, you should be able to find the on-line claim for parenthood child care leave.

For self employed, other things to take note is to try to contribute to your SRS and CPF to ......