Disbursement of Child LifeSG Credits and Top-Ups to Edusave Account or Post-Secondary Education Account in July 2025
Last Updated: 03 Jul 2025
In July 2025, families with eligible children will receive a one-off disbursement of the Child LifeSG Credits (CLC) and/or a one-off top-up of $500 to their children's Edusave Account or Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA). These are part of the suite of household support measures to support families with children in managing their child-raising costs, which were announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong at Budget 2025.
Child LifeSG Credits (CLC)
2 Families will receive $500 in CLC for each Singapore Citizen (SC) child aged 0 to 12 years old in 2025. Over 450,000 children are expected to benefit from the CLC. The disbursement timeline for the CLC is as follows:
| Child's Birth Year | Expected Disbursement |
|---|---|
| Between 2013 and 2024 | Week of 7 July 2025 |
| 2025 | April 2026 |
3 The CLC can be used at a wide range of physical and online merchants to defray household expenses such as groceries, pharmacy items, utilities and transport. These merchants must accept payment via PayNow UEN QR and/or NETS QR.
4 The Child Development Account (CDA) trustee of each eligible child will receive the CLC automatically and will be able to access the CLC via a digital wallet in the LifeSG application. No application is required.
5 CLC recipients will be notified via SMS after the CLC has been credited to their digital wallet in the LifeSG application. To safeguard against scams, SMS notifications sent to parents will only be from "gov.sg". The SMS notifications will only contain information on the status of disbursements. Trustees will not be asked to reply to the SMS, click on links, or provide information to the sender.
6 For enquiries on the CLC disbursement, members of public may visit for more information.
Top-Ups to Edusave Account/Post-Secondary Education Account
7 Families will receive a $500 top-up to the Edusave Account of each SC child aged 13 to 16 (born from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2012), and a $500 one-off top-up to the PSEA of each SC child aged 17 to 20 (born from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2008). These top-ups support the education-related expenses of families with older children, in addition to the annual Edusave contribution that the Government makes.1
8 About 300,000 SC students are expected to benefit from the Edusave Account and PSEA top-ups, which can be used to pay for approved fees and enrichment programmes.
9 The top-up will be directly disbursed into eligible recipients' Edusave account or PSEA in July 2025. Parents of eligible recipients will be notified via SMS of the successful top-up. To safeguard against scams, SMS notifications sent to parents will only be from "gov.sg". The SMS notifications will only contain information on the status of the top-up and recipients will not be asked to reply to the SMS, click on links, or provide information to the sender.
10 For enquiries regarding Edusave Account and PSEA balances, members of public may visit and respectively for more information.
ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT
Footnotes
- Annually, eligible SC students receive Edusave contributions from the Government, for educational uses. Primary school students have received $230 while secondary school students have received $290 in their Edusave account earlier in 2025.