The Spark
Every time NDR rolls around, Singapore tweaks the child support scheme again — Baby Bonus, CDA, Edusave, PSEA, Medisave grants. Working out what your family actually gets, year by year, means digging through several government pages and doing the maths yourself. I wanted a single place where I could plug in a child's birth year and see the whole picture.
I built this so I could stop mentally re-deriving my own kids' benefits every time a Budget speech changes the numbers.
The Build
Little Steps (the working name) is a client-side calculator: add your children, and it projects support from birth through age 17 — Baby Gift, Medisave Grant for Newborns, Child Credits, the CDA First Step Grant, Edusave contributions, and PSEA top-ups. It has a birth-cohort-aware policy engine so it correctly handles the transition rules for kids born before and after 1 April 2027, a merged yearly table comparing benefits across children, and a policy reference table with CDA co-matching caps and parental leave rules.
Built with Vite, TypeScript, and AI-assisted coding, with automated tests for the policy boundary cases. No backend, no login — everything runs in the browser.
The tool is built, live, and passing its policy tests. I use it myself every time a Budget speech or NDR changes the numbers, so I'm not stuck redoing the maths by hand.