New scheme to be rolled out progressively from mid-2025

From mid-2025, both married and single children will enjoy priority access when they apply for a new flat to live with or near their parents, under the new Family Care Scheme (FCS). The new scheme, announced by Minister for National Development, Mr Desmond Lee at a community dialogue session on 6 November 2024, aims to strengthen intergenerational family support by promoting proximity living between parents and children.

2 Today, single children do not have priority access when balloting for new flats to live with or near their parents. Recognising Singapore’s ageing population, the Government understands that more ageing parents may increasingly rely on their children for caregiving and support. To encourage familial care and support, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced at the National Day Rally 2024 that the Government will extend priority access to new flats to all parents and their children regardless of marital status.

Current Priority Schemes to Support Proximity Living and Familial Care

3 Currently, married children and their parents can apply for a new flat under the following priority schemes:

Married Child Priority Scheme (MCPS) for married child and parents to live with/near each other;
Senior Priority Scheme (SPS) (live with or near parents/married child)¹ for seniors to live with/near their parents or married child; and
Multi-Generation Priority Scheme (MGPS) for married children and parents to live near each other in the same BTO project.

The above priority schemes will be replaced by the FCS. More information on the schemes can be found at Annex A.

New Family Care Scheme

4 The new FCS will offer priority access to all parents and their children, married or single, when they apply for a new flat to live with or near each other.

5 It will be rolled out progressively in two phases starting from mid-2025, and will comprise two components – (i) FCS (Proximity) in mid-2025; and (ii) FCS (Joint Balloting) in end-2025.

Implementation Timeline	Details of the new Family Care Scheme	Existing priority schemes that will be subsumed
Mid-2025	FCS (Proximity) Parents and child(ren) will have priority access if they are applying for a new flat to live with or near each other, regardless of marital status.	MCPS SPS (live with or near parents/ married child)²
End-2025	FCS (Joint Balloting) Parents and their child(ren), regardless of marital status, will be able to jointly apply for two units in the same BTO project, where there are 2-room Flexi or 3-room flats in the BTO project.	MGPS

6 Additionally, with the implementation of the new flat classification framework from October 2024, eligible first-timer singles can now apply for new 2-room Flexi flats across Standard, Plus and Prime projects in all locations. This is a significant shift from before, where singles could only apply for new flats in non-mature estates. Singles now have more options to choose from if they wish to buy a new flat to live near their parents, many of whom may currently be residing in older estates that were previously classified as mature estates.

7 We will share more details about FCS closer to its implementation starting in mid-2025. In the meantime, applicants can continue to apply for a flat under the current priority schemes in the upcoming sales exercises.

¹Seniors who wish to buy a 2-room Flexi flat within 4 km of their current flat or private residential property can also apply under SPS (near existing home).
²Seniors applying for a 2-room Flexi flat near their existing home may continue to do so under SPS (near existing home), which remains unchanged.

Bringing Families Closer: New Family Care Scheme to Support Parents and Children to Live Closer Together