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Brief Introduction
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(5)National Health Insurance Premium Labor Occupational
Subsidies for Unemployed Insured
Persons and Their Dependents Accident Insurance

The subjects of the national health insurance Program
premium subsidies are the unemployed insured
person and the dependents of the insured The labor insurance has been divided into the
person who have been covered by the national categories of ordinary accident insurance and
health insurance along with the insured occupational accident insurance since 1979. Since
person up till the time of the insured person’s its implementation, the regulations of occupational
separation from employment and withdrawal accident insurance have not been able to be
from the employment insurance program. The adjusted individually due to the restrictions of the
dependents must be those defined in Article finances, the scope of insurance inclusion, the
2 of the National Health Insurance Act or the maximum amount of insured salary, and the level of
status of insured person of Category 6, but benefits for ordinary accident insurance.
not those who are included in national health Taking the different security objectives of ordinary
insurance coverage retroactively following the accident insurance and occupational accident
insured person’s separation from employment insurance into consideration, in order to provide
and withdrawal from the employment insurance more suitable security to workers and the families
program. of workers who suffer occupational accidents, the

※Payment Standards: regulations of occupational accident insurance was
decoupled from the Labor Insurance Act; in addition
1. For subjects who are eligible for the subsidy, to expanding the scope of insurance inclusion and
the insurer shall provide the subsidy for their increasing the protection provided by the benefits,
co-payment portion of the monthly national the Labor Occupational Accident Insurance and
health insurance premium during the period Protection Act was established by integrating
of subsidy. However, the insurer shall not the Occupational Accident Labor Protection Act,
subsidize for the supplementary premium to providing a complete system that includes the
be collected in accordance with the National prevention, compensation, and rehabilitation
Health Insurance Act. of occupational accidents to workers. The Act is

2. With respect to the period of subsidy, executed by the BLI and the Occupational Safety
the national health insurance premium and Health Administration based on the nature of
subsidies shall be paid for each month that the work and was implemented on May 1, 2022.
contains the last day of the respective period
when the insured receives the unemployment 1. Insured Units and Insured Persons
benefits or vocational training living The labor occupational accident insurance
allowances. (hereinafter referred to as “occupational accident
insurance”) is categorized into mandatory
enrollment (including mutatis mutandis), voluntary
enrollment, and special enrollment. The following
persons are mandated to join the occupational
accident insurance: workers who are 15 years
or older and are hired by employers who have

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