SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) disclosed on Thursday how it compensates families of servicemen who die while in service.
While MINDEF did not reveal the exact amount received by a family of a deceased serviceman, a ministry spokesperson said that a family will receive a death gratuity equivalent to 12 months of the last drawn monthly gross salary of a regular serviceman of equivalent rank.
In a reply to Channel NewsAsia, MINDEF said that the death gratuity is outside of its compensation framework. Full story
