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Threshold still SAT$15,000; the May 2026 budget kept income-tax rates unchanged.

Top rate still 27%; no bill tabled. Reaches only people earning over SAT$25,000, and the gain grows with income.

Company rate still 27%; the government chose concessional loans instead of a rate cut. A cut would go to profitable firms while the budget is in deficit.

VAGST still 15% on food; the May 2026 budget kept it. Prices rose 5.8% in the year to June 2026. Relief would go to every household, not just those in need.

SAT$5.24 an hour since 1 July 2026; SAT$6.05 is not due until 1 July 2028.

Sent to the Remuneration Tribunal in February 2026; no new pay scale or payment confirmed.

Paid from November 2025; government reports 13,000 pensioners.

In force from 1 July 2026 as SAT$250 a fortnight; budget expected 7,285 people.

SAT$300 a month from November 2025; 2,875 recipients reported.

Funded at SAT$20 million and registering families; first payments January 2027.

NGO grants rose from SAT$2.6m to SAT$10.9m, but the four SAT$1m awards are not shown.

No pregnancy payment in either budget; the child benefit starts at birth.

No means-tested top-up in either budget.

SNPF still lends up to 50% of a member's balance.

No refund in either budget.

SNPF guidance still gives retirement options at 55.

Budgeted and in law since July 2026, but the first SAT$2 million payment was still expected in November 2026 and the IMF says the programme under-spends; a flat grant is not targeted at need.

Councils kept and written into law, but Cabinet now picks the chairs and the first district only qualified for SAT$2 million money in October 2026.

No fee change found; the measured hospital charge is unchanged at SAT$22.50 a night.

Children under 12 and people over 60 already had fee waivers; medicines were short in 2026.

No scheme, bill or budget line found.

Government leased land to a private specialist hospital that broke ground on 14 September 2026 and paused a week later; no public hospital is funded.

The prime minister restated the plan in November 2025; no site, budget line or tender.

Existing World Bank-backed NCD screening continued; no new programme tied to the promise.

Government scholarship budget rose from SAT$10 million to SAT$13 million; recipient numbers not published.

Tuition was already covered by the pre-existing SAT$18 million school grant; nothing new for the promise has been funded, extra fees remain and the grant ran late in 2026.

Announced with a July 2026 start, then pushed to 12 to 24 months; no school serving free lunches has been reported.

A new career and pay framework for teachers, including early childhood, is being developed; no pre-school teacher has been moved onto the government payroll.

Mission schools still get the old grant subsidy; no new payroll decision for their teachers.

No SAT$50 million facilities programme appears in either budget.

No SAT$50 million maintenance injection; the budgets put SAT$5 million a year into rural connections and SAT$100 million into crisis fuel instead, and blackouts continued in 2026.

SAT$5 million a year for new rural connections and borehole fuel, plus a share of the fuel provision; no SAT$50 million maintenance injection has started.

Three solar farms planned with SAT$44.2 million of partner money, none started; no government SAT$50 million line in either budget.

One SAT$16.8 million cargo and vehicle vessel in service from September 2026, about a third of the promised sum; no SAT$50 million appropriation and no fare change.

Maota reopened 8 October 2026 with daily flights; Asau is still to come; runway and lighting upgrades pending.

The end-2026 target was withdrawn by the finance minister within two months; no aircraft or company has appeared, though the date itself has not yet passed.

Investor registration opened; no aircraft, no decision to buy or lease, no SAT$300 million in either budget.

No hotel fund exists; tourism shares a SAT$15 million lending facility with farming and manufacturing.

No facilities programme; the SAT$6 million a year Sports Development Fund is not shown to build or upgrade grounds.

10,000 acres of STEC land moved between government bodies in 2026; nothing verified as returned to villages or families by 20 October 2026.

Development Bank concessional lending rose from SAT$8 million to SAT$10 million, then SAT$15 million, a fraction of the SAT$50 million; the harvest-repayment terms are not shown and the loans went to 30 businesses, not village growers.

No SAT$50 million fund for export farmers exists; what runs is a smaller facility shared with manufacturing and tourism, an exporter facility and taro buying, while exports keep falling.

No SAT$50 million manufacturing fund exists; manufacturing only shares a SAT$10 million, then SAT$15 million, multi-sector facility, and no import fall is shown.

By October 2026 the only published step was a district tour of an existing private processor and talk of possible district farms supplying it; no cost, site or plan exists.

No office, appropriation or opening decision found by 19 October 2026.

No new consulate found; the Prime Minister ordered preparations for a Jerusalem embassy in January 2026 with no funding line found.

No agreement negotiated by this government found; every visa change in force was decided by New Zealand or Australia, two of them before it took office.

Cabinet approved a task force and pilot on 2 September 2026; no law changed and no overseas ballot available.

Ministry of Family and Social Affairs in operation from 1 July 2026.

Drug campaign, raids and a prevention programme have started; nothing yet on online abuse and no outcome figures.

No review started; meanwhile courts, the IMF and the Law Society have questioned the executive's reach.

Nothing announced since the campaign.

No zone or digital-finance market announced; only general digital policy work.

Samoa says it is interested in selling credits; no sale or revenue reported.

Selected fees fell 20% from 1 November 2021; not all charges, and once-a-year licensing was not confirmed.

Raised from SAT$3 to SAT$4 on 1 July 2024 and SAT$4.84 on 1 July 2025, above the SAT$3.50 rally figure.

Public servants got a two-year cost-of-living rise from July 2023 and a salary-scale review; private-sector pay reviews rest on the minimum wage.

No count was ever published; formal employment rose by about 1,800 over the term.

Paid from FAST's first budget, September 2021: SAT$160 to SAT$200.

Paid at SAT$100 a month from 2022; 1,820 people by May 2023, 2,556 registered by March 2024.

SAT$2m in the first year, SAT$500,000 in each of the next two; 277 households helped.

Pensioners with a card travel free on domestic ferries; no source confirms free travel for people with disabilities or when the pensioner concession began.

The first budget promised annual grants to NGOs serving the elderly and disabled; no amounts were published.

All 51 councils were registered and had offices by mid-2023; the law to govern them was promised for June 2023 and only passed in 2026, after the term.

SAT$51 million was budgeted in 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25, but the first year paid only SAT$200,000 per district and not every annual million had reached every district when the term ended.

Each district got a council office for its grant, but no source reviewed shows a district service centre built or a government service handed to village councils.

District hospitals were refurbished and staffed with teams, but no budget carried a separate SAT$20 million a year primary care line.

The first budget extended hospital meals to all inpatients with SAT$2 million for bulk food; no later report checked shows whether every hospital kept it up.

Land was reserved and then swapped for a dry site, and partners were asked for money; no hospital was built by the end of the term.

A health care scheme law was signed in April 2022 but never put into operation; in December 2024 the NPF was still consulting on it.

Instead of a payroll, 60% of the existing school grant, about SAT$10 million, was earmarked for non-government teachers' pay; by 2025 FAST was promising preschool teachers' pay again.

The school grant and scholarships grew and 35 districts paid school fees from their grants, but no loan scheme, uniform programme or study centre was reported.

A pilot and a 120-school satellite project were launched, but by June 2025 only 29 schools, 17% of them, had reliable connections.

Household power and water bills fell 20% from 1 November 2021 and stayed down; the cut was withdrawn for businesses and government in 2023 after EPC lost SAT$54.8 million in a year.

Passenger fares between Upolu and Savaiʻi fell from 15 November 2021, but vehicles and the Pago Pago route were excluded and the measured adult fare fell SAT$12 to SAT$10, 16.7% not 20%.

EPC stayed the single grid operator buying private solar under its own contracts; renewables slipped to 30% of generation and the term ended in an energy emergency.

Fiamē confirmed on 30 July 2021 that the China-backed Vaiusu Bay port would not go ahead; it was never built.

Cabinet reviewed the airline, rescinded the Boeing 737 lease in December 2021, sacked the board and ordered an audit; ending the lease cost SAT$14.6 million and the airline kept only small-plane routes.

Fagaliʻi reopened on 29 May 2023 after SAT$2.6 million of work; the plan for Asau and Maota was only a 2023 target for an assessment by December 2025.

Salelologa port was upgraded and reopened on 4 July 2024 and the Satitoa shipyard reopened under a private partner; Asau got only a feasibility-study target.

Salelologa got an upgraded port, an approved packhouse and a SAT$17 million courthouse start; Manono and Apolima got a feasibility study; no township or Savaiʻi infrastructure plan was published.

No review was published; the government took the Alaoa dam through ADB appraisal, signed US$99.7 million in grants in July 2024 and budgeted for construction to start in 2024/25.

No long-term plan, Mulifanua plan or Apia urban body appeared; the 2023 sector plan only set a target to write a long-term plan by January 2025.

Enforcement stopped in 2021 and the Income Tax Amendment Act 2022 exempted ministers' congregational income from 12 November 2021.

The three Acts were amended twice, and the 2025 constitutional amendment restored judicial review and a working appeal court, but none of the laws was repealed and the government said in 2023 it would not repeal them.

No review of the 2008 Act or scheme to return idle land was reported during the term; the only amendment to the Act took effect before FAST took office.

The agriculture ministry's budget rose from SAT$14.5 million in 2021/22 to SAT$20.4 million in 2024/25, but no separate SAT$20 million programme was created; most support ran through district grants and a World Bank project begun in 2019.

Four taro nurseries were agreed with PHAMA Plus in 2023 and a Samoa Export Authority was funded, but no extension service revival, feed mill or produce marketing facility was reported.

A guest-worker channel to American Samoa registered 1,222 workers with 500 more agreed at the May 2024 Atoa Samoa talks; no specialist or investment scheme was reported.

A 2024 law let citizens abroad start registering online but still required a trip to Samoa for biometrics and the vote; the overseas-voting bill was never passed.

Electoral amendment Acts passed in 2021 and 2024; the 2024 law added online registration from abroad and a residency rule, over opposition objections.

A forensic audit of 30 HRPP-era projects was funded in 2021 but work began only in 2023, covered 13 projects, and the report was still incomplete when the government changed.

No term-limit law was passed; the only constitutional amendment of the term dealt with the courts.

SAT$100,000 was budgeted for an anti-corruption authority in 2021 and a policy was launched in June 2024, but no fraud office or agency existed when the term ended.