This is the article that auntie Liangzhen was talking about. I think he's the same guy who started the petition...

The two forgotten groups in the Budget
Susan Long
ST/11/03/06

ALMOST everyone, from the young, the old, high earners, the sandwichedgeneration in between, to the needy, made off with some bounty from theelection year Budget unveiled recently.
Except for two groups, who felt left out in the cold. On the surface, bothhave nothing - and yet, looking closer, everything - to do with each other.
One disgruntled group are parents of disabled children who earn more than$2,500 a month combined, who have had subsidies taken away.
The other are housewives, who do not have 'real jobs' with pay cheques andhence do not qualify for the Workfare Bonus.
Those in the first group feel that whatever little they had is being takenaway. From next month, when means testing kicks in, families earning more than$2,500 will have to fork out more to send their disabled children to twostate-run rehabilitation schemes.
Under the Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children, which helpsimprove the motor skills of disabled children up to age six, families earningmore than $3,500 will see subsidies whittle down from $368 a month to zero by2010.
For the Community Integration Support Programme, which helps older, disabledchildren adjust to mainstream schools, those earning more than $3,500 a monthwill see a $240 monthly handout disappear by 2010.
These special needs families resent that although the Government isostensibly doing more for disabled children, it is doing less for theirs.Although the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports says thatsubsidies will be given to needy cases, few parents - there are an estimated800 new cases of children diagnosed with disabilities each year - arereassured.
The bottom line, says remisier Tan Choon Kiat, 36, who has an autisticthree-year-old son, is that a $3,500 monthly combined income is no princely sumfor a special needs family.
Sick of long waiting times at public hospitals for physiotherapy,occupational and speech therapy sessions, Mr Tan now spends more than $2,800 amonth on three-year-old Troy's private therapy.
Each month, $1,600 goes to Troy's education at ZEE School, $100-an-hourspeech therapy four times a week at Speech Connection, $100-an-hour ofstructured learning four times a week at Children's Partnership, and $50acupuncture sessions twice a week.
That does not include his food, medical bills and the maid hired to helpout. His mother Lee Lee also quit her job as a $4,000-a-month IT specialist totake care of him full-time. The couple also have two daughters, aged six andseven.
Mr Tan buys the Government's hard-nosed heath-care arguments. 'I know if youcan afford it, you shouldn't be depriving others. If you don't take care ofyour health, you've only yourself to blame.
'But my kid was born like that, not by his or my choice. What hits me mostis their message: You don't deserve our help',' he grinds out.
He is now living off his 'savings and past investments'. More than money,what he seeks is some 'recognition' - any token subsidy will do - that specialneeds families, even those who fall within the middle class, bear an inordinateload.
To that effect, he has started an online petition (www.petitiononline.com/shbi2006/), which has garnered over 1,200 signatures from parentswith disabled children and well-wishers.