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Subsidy encouraging hawkers to adopt digital payments extended to end-2025

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October 11, 2024

More than 11,500 hawkers have adopted cashless payments so far, with a government subsidy to encourage them to do so extended until the end of 2025.

- Chin Hui Shan

The subsidy, under the Hawkers Go Digital programme, waives the 0.5 per cent transaction fee that stallholders must pay for each digital transaction, for the first $20,000 worth of such transactions per stall each month.

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