Working fathers who do not qualify for Government-Paid Paternity Leave (GPPL) due to their employment contracts (e.g. on short-term employment contracts, or employment contracts had expired before the birth or adoption of their child) are eligible for GPPB if the following conditions are met:
For Natural fathers:
1. The child is born, or has an estimated delivery date (EDD), on or after 1 January 2021;
2. The father has been in employment or self-employment for at least 90 days in the 12 months before his child's date of birth;
3. The father does not qualify for benefits under the GPPL scheme based on his current employment;
4. The child is a Singapore Citizen;
a. If the child is not a Singapore Citizen at birth, the father can be eligible for GPPB if the child obtains Singapore Citizenship within 12 months from his/her date of birth (inclusive of date of birth); and
5. The father is/was lawfully married to his child's mother at some point between conception and birth;
a. The father can be eligible for GPPB if he is legally married to the child’s mother within 12 months from his child's date of birth (inclusive of date of birth).
For Adoptive fathers:
1. The father’s formal intent to adopt (FIA) date is on or after 1 January 2021;
2. The father has been in employment or self-employment for at least 90 days in the 12 months before FIA date;
3. The father does not qualify for benefits under the GPPL scheme based on his current employment;
4. The child is less than 12 months old at the point of FIA;
5. The father is not the natural father of the child;
6. The child is a Singapore Citizen. If the child is not a Singapore Citizen, at least one of the adoptive parents must be a Singapore Citizen;
a. The adopted child must obtain Singapore Citizenship within 6 months after the Adoption Order is passed (inclusive of Adoption order date).*; and
7. The child must be adopted within 1 year from the date of FIA (inclusive of FIA date).*
*The Government will recover payments from you if these criteria are not met.
Formal intent to adopt (FIA) is the date when an application to adopt is submitted to Court (for a Singapore Citizen child), or the date when the dependant’s pass (DP) in respect of the child is issued or a document indicating the application for the DP has been approved (for a foreign child).