Brief encounter with PAP's Mr Masagoes (30th Apr 2011)

While I was distributing brochures for NSP around Tampines blocks, I met PAP's Mr Masagoes and his team. They called out to me so I had a conversation with them sharing my plight as a low-middle income group family. I was mainly addressing the fact that my parents are between 60 - 70 years old, having to work so hard due to the high cost of living and downgrading from a 4 room flat to a 3 room flat and currently residing at a Studio Apartment. I don't totally blame my parents for being not well-informed but when they went to Mr. Mah Bow Tan to appeal for the Studio Apartment, he could have access the situation at a holistic angle. True, my parents need money for my education but couldn't they recognise that they have a daughter who was moving on to Polytechnic studies and after which she (I) would start working and help to pay the mortgage?

The flaw over here is, what is going to happen after the 30 years lease? No property for me at all, all the $60K paid to the government.

That was not the only issue I address. GST? Very late retirement.

Mr Masagoes said that I could email him and that he always respond to his emails. I replied, I emailed you once (because he was in charge of Tampines 800+ series) but you failed to reply me.

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