🇸🇬 Singapore · Insurance
Insurance in Singapore — health, travel, and digital-nomad cover, what is mandatory, and how to choose a plan.
Singapore's main social-security pillar is the Central Provident Fund (CPF) — a mandatory savings scheme for citizens and permanent residents covering retirement, housing and healthcare; foreigners on work passes generally do not contribute. Employees are covered by work-injury compensation. Private insurers (life, motor, health, etc.) are regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS); motor third-party insurance is compulsory.
- CPF is a mandatory savings scheme for citizens and PRs (retirement, housing, healthcare); foreigners on work passes generally do not contribute.
- Employees are covered by work-injury compensation (under the WICA framework).
- Motor third-party insurance is compulsory; private life/health insurance is widely held.
- Private insurers are regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Official authorities
- Central Provident Fund (CPF)
Official mandatory savings scheme (citizens/PRs).
- Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
Regulator of insurers and financial institutions.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.
Government portals
- Singapore Government — Singapore's integrated government services portal — unified Singpass identity login
- Immigration & Checkpoints Authority — Employment Pass, S Pass, Work Permit, PR and citizenship applications in Singapore
- Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore — Personal and corporate income tax, GST filing, and tax incentive lookup