(10-04-2024, 04:55 PM)Jinwului Wrote: I think in terms of benefits, Australia beats Singapore hands down so if you want to calculate, Aussies should be the one complaining
What benefits are you talking about?
Unemployment payment is only given to low income families that are either jobless or underemployed, if you have big amount of money like $10-20k in the bank or /and own more than one property & collect rentals, you are not eligible
Childcare payment is only eligible for couple who has child/ children to offset childcare fees, not much.
Aged pension is also subject to income and asset tests, meaning Centrelink (Australian government authorised welfare agency) will assess how much money you have at bank and your overseas income, as well as overseas properties you own and rental income. Based on the negative income you make your pension amount will be drastically reduced to 30-50% of the full Unemployment. In order to continuously get Aged pension, you are not allow to stay in overseas more than 6 weeks per year as Centrelink will cancel your payment, you must apply all over again.
Unlike in Spore, there is no annual performance bonuses like 1-3 month year end bonuses in Australia, big firms if doing well the big boss may write a cheque of the amount of $1-3k and give to the employees as bonus, that’s it.
Lastly the income tax is much higher than that in Spore, the higher your salary is the more tax you need to pay. The GST is also higher than Spore. Inflation is very high…eating a bowel of Laksa or Vietnamese beef pho used to be A$10 and now costs A$18.5