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Chapter Three - Profile of Delegated Businesses

payment standard set forth in the farmer health to Article 44-3 of the Farmer Health Insurance Act,
insurance program. An additional 50% will be the central competent authority in charge of the
paid based on the monthly insurance amount business shall allocate funds to make up for the
of the insured person and in accordance with deficit of the farmer occupational injury insurance
the level of disability and payment standards program, if any in future.
prescribed by law.

(4)Funeral Grant Welfare Allowance for
In the event that, during the period of Elderly Farmers Program

participating in the farmer occupational injury In order to further ensure the welfare of elderly
insurance, an insured person is dead because farmers and improve their living conditions, the
of occupational injury or sickness, the person Temporary Act for the Welfare Allowance for Elderly
paying for the funeral expenses shall receive Farmers Program was promulgated in 1995. The

funeral grant equal to 30 times of the monthly COA announced the Application and Distribution
insurance amount for the current month Measures of the Welfare Allowance for Elderly
(NT$306,000).
Farmers in the same year and delegated the
business to the BLI. Eligible farmers over the age of
4. Financing
The farmer occupational injury insurance program 65 can receive welfare allowance for elderly farmers
of NT$3,000 per month on time, the amount of
was implemented on a trial basis on November 1,
2018 and has maintained a surplus so far. Pursuant which has been increased to NT$4,000, NT$5,000,
NT$6,000, NT$7,000 and NT$7,256 and

Profile of Welfare Allowance for Elderly Farmers (1999-2021)
No. of approved persons Total approved amount
(in 10,000) (in NT$100 million)
180 563 563 553 548 600

509 508 505 496 541 539 527 515 523 514
150
457
412 450
120
321 332
90 300
243 232 232 238 241
60 59 64 66 67 68 69 70 70 71 71 71 70 68 67 66 65 64 63 61 60 59 58 56
150
30

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

No. of approved persons (in 10,000) Total approved amount (in NT$100 million)

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