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08 ｜ National Health Insurance and National Pension

4. Insurance premium subsidy rate: 40% government registration cancelled" by the Labor Insurance Bureau
subsidy (NTD 790 per month) for regular people, was approved, allowing people had been overseas
55% (NTD 1,087) or 70% (NTD 1,383) for those with for two years between January 1, 2020 and June 30,
income below a certain standard, middle-low-income 2023 and had their household registration cancelled
households, or people with mild or moderate physical to continue to pay insurance premium or have pension
and mental disabilities, and 100% (NTD 1,976) for low- payment request eligibility calculated favorably.
income households and people with severe physical 2. Amendment to Article 17 of the "Enforcement Rules
and mental disabilities or worse. of the National Pension Act": For insured persons who
5. Premium Payment Rate of Insured individuals: From the lose eligibility under Article 12, Paragraphs 1 to 3 of the
establishment of NPI (on October 1, 2008) to December Act at the end of a month due to household registration
2023, receivable premiums of insured individuals were relocation, the competent authority responsible for
more than NTD 477.8 billion and more than NTD 265.1 the insurance premium for that month shall be the
billion was received. The payment rate was 55.49%. municipal or county (city) competent authority of the last
6. Payment items, NPI Benefit Recipients and Payments. registered domicile where the insured person held the
(Table 8-3) aforementioned eligibility before relocation that month.
7. Financial Status of the NPI Fund: As of the end of 2023, 3. On April 14, 2023, the "Ministry of Health and Welfare
a total of NTD 520.3 billion of the NPI fund was utilized Regulations on Subsidies for National Pension
in diversified of assets allocation. Insurance Premiums in Response to Post-Pandemic
Recovery" was enacted and promulgated. This
Section 2 National Pension System Reform regulation subsidizes 50% of the self-paid National
and Important Results Pension insurance premiums for nine months from April
1. Handling of the "flexible measures for guaranteeing 2023 to December 2023. As of June 30, 2024, over
the national pension rights of people unable to return 1.68 million people have been subsidized, amounting
to Taiwan for two years who have had household to more than NTD 5.6 billion (with the final payment
deadline set for October 31, 2025).

Table 8-3 NPI Benefit Recipients and Payments, 2023

Recipients (Persons) Payment Amounts (NTD 1,000s)
Payment Type
Male Female Total Male Female Total
Old Age Pension Payments 622,063 805,608 1,427,671 27,223,920 38,214,975 65,438,895
Maternity Payments 0 13,597 13,597 0 53,339 53,339
Mental/Physical Disability Pension
Insurance Payments 4,451 3,225 7,676 183,285 152,661 335,946
Payments
Funeral Payments 7,823 3,590 11,413 756,070 347,806 1,103,876
Surviving Family Pension Payments 91,191 29,450 120,641 4,430,620 1,434,389 5,865,009
Subtotal 725,528 855,470 1,580,998 32,593,895 40,203,170 72,797,065
Old Age Basic Guaranteed Pension 132,917 248,575 381,492 6,346,661 11,745,764 18,092,425
Payments
Other Mental / Physical Disability Basic 9,486 8,862 18,348 583,083 545,851 1,128,934
Payment Guaranteed Pension Payments
Aboriginal Pension Payments 16,747 27,130 43,877 764,554 1,228,543 1,993,097
Subtotal 159,150 284,567 443,717 7,694,298 13,520,158 21,214,456
Total 884,678 1,140,037 2,024,715 40,288,193 53,723,328 94,011,521
Source: Bureau of Labor Insurance, Ministry of Labor, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Note: Recipients of lump sum payments are accumulative number of persons each year. Recipients of pension payments are the recipients at the
end of the year.

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