Written Answer to PQ on WIC claims for work-from-home injuries
NOTICE PAPER NO. 2596 OF 2024 FOR THE SITTING ON OR AFTER 26 FEBURARY 2024
QUESTION NO. 5507 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
MP: Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan
To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) from 2020 to 2023, what is the annual number of work injury claims under the Work Injury Compensation Act that were received by the Ministry for work-from-home injuries; and (b) of which, how many of these claims were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful, respectively.
Answer:
The Ministry of Manpower started tracking injuries sustained during work-from-home arrangements since the start of the Circuit Breaker period in April 2020. The number of work injury compensation claims received for such injuries from April 2020 to 2023 is at Table 1.
Table 1 - Number of work-from-home work injury claims from April 2020 to 2023
| |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
| Total no. of claims received |
37 |
9 |
3 |
0 |
| No. of successful claims |
24 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
| No. of unsuccessful claims |
13 |
4 |
2 |
0 |