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Brief Introduction
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paid 30 months survivor allowances. Employment Insurance
※Priority of the entitled dependents
to claim survivor allowances: Program
It is the same order as that for survivor The unemployment benefits were inaugurated
pension. Survivors listed on the rear on January 1, 1999, as part of labor insurance
order are not entitled to apply for survivor benefits. After the Employment Insurance Act was
allowances if survivors listed on the front still implemented on January 1, 2003, unemployment
exist. To safeguard the financial stability of benefits were taken out of the labor insurance
survivors, the payment may be claimed by program and increased with vocational training
the followed beneficiary if the qualified pre- living allowances, early reemployment incentives,
order beneficiary has confirmed that he/ and national health insurance premium subsidies
she will not claim the survivor allowance and for unemployed insured persons. Since January
has issued in person a letter of agreement 31, 2007, dependents enrolled with insured
or letter of renunciation for such purpose. persons have been allowed to receive national
However, in accordance with Article 1088, health insurance premium support as well. The
Paragraph 2 of the Civil Code, the statutory Employment Insurance Act was promulgated
agent is not entitled to declare abandonment on March 31, 2009 after three readings at the
of the claim right on behalf of a minor Legislative Yuan and implemented on May 1, 2009.
beneficiary. Major amendments include: raising the insured

age to 65 and expanding the scope of coverage,
granting parental leave allowances during unpaid
parental leave, The unemployment benefits for

Trends in Cash Benefits of Labor Insurance (1999-2021)

Cash benefits
(in NT$100 million)
5000
4500 4192 4527 4044

4000 3563 3866
3500 3232 3932
3000 2593 2773
2500 2794

2000 1669 1860 1903 2458
1500 1294 1471 1717 1378 1281
1000 1014 1378 1416

500 1009
0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Cash benefits (in NT$100 million)

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