by Radha Basu, Senior Correspondent

A VIDEO posted online recently showed an elderly woman trawling the streets of Singapore scavenging for cardboard.

The post claimed that, despite ill health, she was forced to work the streets in this way to make ends meet. And it unleashed a flurry of online complaints about how uncaring the state had become towards the poor.

Checks by government officials, however, revealed that the woman's circumstances were in marked contrast to that portrayed online, says Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan.'

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