CHECKLIST FOR SUBMISSION OF

REQUIRED SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS

Full Name of Student

Student Card Number

Admission Year

The documents attached with this checklist are submitted for my application(s) for :

Loan
Bursary
Scholarship
Grant/Subsidy

Application Number (s)

Application Number (s)

Application Number (s)

Application Number (s)

Employment Type

Document Type
For Singapore Citizen [SC], Singapore Permanent Resident [SPR] and Foreign Student [FS]

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Personal Identification Document (Required of applicant AND applicants immediate# and non-immediate family members##)
In this order of priority:
(a)
Personal Identity Card (front and back) or
(b)
Birth certificate (if one is not issued with a personal identity card)
Employment Status and Family Income Background (Required of applicants immediate# and non-immediate family members##)
Items (a), (b) and (c) are required:
Salaried Employee
(see point 4 on Page 2
for gross income
definition)

(a)

(b)
(c)

Latest monthly gross income* payslip (or within the last 3 months from the month of
application) or Employer's letter of certification on current employment status and monthly
gross income* earned
Pay document on any bonus received over the last 12 months (from applicants application
submission)
CPF Contribution History for the last 15 months (for SC/SPR only)

Click here for user guide to download CPF Contribution History

(a)
Self-employed

(b)

Income Tax Notice of Assessment for the last year of assessment by local tax authority
and
Declaration Statement (printed and bearing the declarants signature and date)

Click here for user guide to download IRAS Income Tax Notice of Assessment and Declaration Statement

(a)
Unemployed/
Housewife

CPF Contribution History for the last 15 months (from the month of application) (for SC/SPR
only)

(b)

and
Declaration Statement (printed and bearing the declarants signature and date)

Click here for user guide to download CPF Contribution History record and Declaration Statement

(a)
Retrenched/Retired

(b)

Letter of retrenchment/retirement/pension
and
Declaration Statement (printed and bearing the declarants signature and date)

Click here for user guide to download Declaration Statement

Full-time National
Serviceman
(for SC/SPR only)

Full-time Student

(a)
(b)

SAF Identity Card or

Enlistment Notice

(a)
(b)
(c)

Student/EZ-Link card or
Letter of Admission or
Any other relevant documents verifying school-going/full-time student status (eg, latest
results slip)

Others, where applicable (showing the family background and financial situation)
Deceased

Death Certificate

Divorced

Divorce agreement (including settlement details)

Others

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

Other forms of income (eg, property rental)

Letter by social welfare organisation/special needs schools
Medical report/doctors certification letter in support of medical condition of family
member(s)
Any others (eg, overdue utilities bill) indicating hardship faced by the family

Note: The applicant must provide an English translated version of any supporting document that is not in English.

Updated as at 5 June 2014

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
(1)

If your supporting documents are not attached at the time of your online application submission, you may submit them
separately to CSFA within the next seven days.
Methods of submission:
(a)

Email to CSFA at finasst@smu.edu.sg (indicate your application reference number or SMU student card number in
your email subject)

(b)

Submit in person or send by mail to CSFA at:

Centre for Student Financial Assistance (CSFA)
Office of Dean of Students
Singapore Management University
81 Victoria Street
Level 7 SMU Administration Building
Singapore 188065
(Attn: Ms Ina Hon/Ms Siti Norashikin)

(2)

Documents without gross income* being indicated are not acceptable.

COMPUTATION OF GROSS HOUSEHOLD MONTHLY PER CAPITA INCOME

(3)

Monthly gross household per capita income (PCI) is defined as the:

Total monthly gross income* of immediate# and nonimmediate## family members staying with the applicant
total number of immediate and nonimmediate family members staying with the applicant

(4)

Gross income* includes:

(a)

Income (including employee's CPF/mandatory contributions) contributions from selfemployment, business or

salaried employment (which includes basic salary, allowances, overtime pay, etc) as well as other sources of
income (eg, property rental).

(b)

If the monthly gross income* earned is irregular (eg, commissions/overtime pay received), you may compute your
family members gross average monthly income based on the payslips for the last three months (from your month
of application).

(c)

Bonuses received in the last 12 months (from applicants application submission month) should be included and
would be computed as one twelfth of the annual wage supplements.

(d)

The monthly financial support from divorced/separated parent or spouse such as alimony and contributions to
support children/household.

Payments in kind, reimbursement for transport and other expenses, and monthly allowance given to full-time National
Serviceman are excluded.
(5)

Immediate family members# include your:

(a)
spouse, parents and your children who may or may not be living together with you.
(b)
divorced/separated/deceased spouse or parent must be included in the application (for computation of pci, they
may be excluded).

(6)

Nonimmediate family members## include your:

(a)
grandparents, siblings, siblings spouses, parents siblings (uncles and aunties), and
(b)
any other relatives who are living together with you.

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