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What we can confirm will be based on existing scenario as regulations may change in future. Have you already applied for HFE? Housing grant eligibility is also subject to income therefore the $40k grant amount is not guaranteed.

Key Principle: HDB Grants Are Per Household, Not Per Person

Under Housing & Development Board rules:
CPF housing grants are considered a subsidy for the family nucleus
Once you’ve taken a CPF Housing Grant, you are generally considered to have enjoyed a housing subsidy

Even if:
Only you were eligible at the time
Your wife was not PR yet
She did not “personally” receive a grant
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Good morning,

Under the Non-Citizen Family scheme, the housing grant you receive is based on the purchase of an HDB resale 4-room flat or smaller, specifically under the Single scheme. What you're looking at is the Half Grant, which is available to the current foreign spouse transitioning to Singaporean Citizen (SC) status for the next property purchase. Once your spouse has obtained her Singapore Permanent Resident (SPR) status, you'll be eligible to apply for a larger Build-To-Order (BTO) unit. However, please note that an additional resale levy will be applicable, and the Half Grant will not be available.

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A Top Up Grant may apply to your spouse in the event that you previously received a Singles Grant or bought a 2-room Flexi flat from HDB as a single, with other single citizens, or with a non-resident spouse, and subsequently your spouse/ child has obtained Singapore citizenship or SPR status.

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Hi
Appreciate your sharing, upon getting her PR able to write into HDB to ask for the grants top up, or once you apply the next HFE you will determine the outcome on how much grants are both of you able to attain.

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Hi,

1) Your spouse will be eligible to the top-up grant of $30k when she became a PR.
2) This is based on the changes of your family income still within the $14k income ceiling and you took the grant when buying the flat now.
3) The grant will be credited into her CPF OA. This amount can be used to offset the purchase price or reduce housing loan for the flat purchased.
4) However, since she was a FR and can only be an occupier for the current purchase flat. Her CPF cannot be used for what was mentioned in (3). Therefore, the grant can only be use for the next purchase.
5) Note that she must submit her application for TOP-Up Grant within 6 months after becoming a SPR.

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Hi

If your ultimate objective to get a new BTO flat, if possible you might want to consider not to get the current first timer grant instead, so to maintain your hdb first timer status when applying new BTO, if and when she gets the SPR. If you take the grant now, you will be considered 2nd timer next, which lowers your chance to get a good queue number, and a resale levy applies as well when you get the subsidized BTO flat.

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✔1 Grant applies for resale HDB 4 room or smaller under the Non Citizen Family Scheme.

✔2 Half Housing Grant available for foreign spouse scenario.

✔3 Larger BTO possible after spouse obtains SPR but resale levy applies and Half Grant is not available.

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