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1. What is the labor insurance pension?
2. How is the average monthly insured salary calculated for the labor insurance pension?
3. Under the labor insurance pension policy, how does the BLI determine the exact length of time I have been insured?
Advantages and Coverage of the Pension
1. With the labor insurance pension, what types of benefits do the workers get?
2. What are the advantages of the labor insurance pension policy?
3. Do I lose qualifications if I do not claim my pension within five years of surrendering the insurance?
Rules for Application and Disbursement of Pensions
1. Are application forms required to claim the labor insurance pension?
2. If I apply for the old-age pension benefit, which day of each month will the money be available?
3. If my spouse dies a few years after I apply for the Old-age Pension Benefit, can I also apply for the Survivors Pension Benefit?
4. What should be done if the insured persons die only a few years after they start receiving the labor insurance pension benefits?
5. After the implementation of the labor insurance pension policy, can I still claim a one-time payment?
6. After choosing the monthly pension payments, can I change my mind and claim a one-time payment?
7. How long can the insured person receive his/her payments?
Q&A Relating to the 2017 Adjustment of Labor Insurance Pension Payment Based on CPI Growth
1. I am receiving an old-age pension benefit of NT$20,000 per month. Will this amount be increased in the future?
2. Since the launch of the labor insurance pension system in 2009 up to 2016, how has the CPI accumulated growth rate been calculated for each year (the year when the beneficiary starts to receive the payment)?
3. Will there be any adjustment to the labor insurance pension payment in 2017? In which month will the adjustment become effective?
4. I applied for the old-age pension benefit in October, 2010. An adjustment of 5.45% has been made since May 2015. Will I receive further increases in 2017?
5. As a follow-up question, I have already received an adjustment of 5.45% to my labor insurance pension payment. Will this be changed to 5.10% in 2017?
6. I started receiving the old-age pension benefit in February 2012, will I also receive an increased payment starting from May 2017?
7. If I am entitled to an adjustment of labor insurance pension payments from May 2017, when will I receive the adjusted payments?
8. Further to the previous question, why is my labor insurance pension payment amount adjusted starting from May 2017 and not from January 2017?
9. I started to receive old-age pension benefits in July 2011. The amount is NT$20,000 per month. How much will the increased amount to be received be for May 2017?
10. Further to the previous question, how do I know if my labor insurance pension payments have been adjusted and by how much? Will the Bureau of Labor Insurance notify me via written notice?
11. Since the old-age pension benefit is adjusted based on the CPI accumulated growth rate, will there be any difference between claiming the first and the second payment method?
Maternity Benefits
1. Who is entitled to receive maternity benefits and how is the payment calculated?
2. If an insured female leaves her job for certain reasons and terminates her labor insurance after she becomes pregnant, can she still claim the maternity benefits after she gives birth to a child?
3. To apply for maternity benefits, what documents should I prepare?
4. If a husband is covered by Labor Insurance but the wife is not covered by labor insurance, could she claim for maternity benefits?
5. If a female insured person makes a delivery but since she is not legally married so there is no name for the father of the newborn in the household registration, can she claim for maternity benefits?
6. Do the application forms for labor the insurance maternity benefits need to be endorsed and submitted by the insured unit?
7. Labor Insurance Maternity Benefits Online Application Procedure Q&A
8. Is the maternity benefits different for natural birth and caesarean birth? Is there any extra payment for a twin delivery?
9. Are mothers who give birth out of wedlock eligible for the maternity benefits under the labor insurance program? Am I still eligible over a year after delivery? If an employee's wife delivers a child, is he also eligible for this benefit? Does any other social insurance also offer maternity benefits?
Injury or Sickness Benefits
1. How to apply for injury or sickness benefits? What documents are needed for the application?
2. In case of being hospitalized for less than 4 days, receiving only outpatient treatment or recuperating at home, could an insured person apply for injury or sickness benefits of ordinary accident?
3. Can an insured person who is withdrawn from insurance coverage after sustaining injury or suffering from sickness still apply for injury or sickness benefits?
4. Why the regulation says that the insured person could not claim injury or sickness benefits if he/she could obtain the original salary for the period the insured person is unable to work?
5. Why the regulation for injury and sickness benefits defines that the benefits are issued starting from the fourth day of unable to work?
6. If an insured person is laid off and continue to participate in labor insurance, whether he/she could apply for injury and sickness benefits if he/she is involved in an accident?
7. If the insured person is hospitalized due to ordinary injury or sickness and applies for special leave, thereby not affecting the payment of his or her “regular salary or wages,” will he/she be able to apply for injury and sickness benefits?
8. Can the insured person apply for injury and sickness benefits if he or she has already claimed disability benefits?
9. If the insured person is on temporary leave without pay during ordinary injury or sickness and remains enrolled in Labor Insurance, is he or she eligible to apply for injury and sickness benefits if hospitalized treatment is required?
10. If the insured person incurs ordinary injury or sickness during temporary parental leave without pay to care for his or her infant child and requires hospital care, is he or she eligible to apply for ordinary injury and sickness benefits?
11. How does an insured person apply for injury and sickness benefits if he or she has been compensated according to his or her original wage rate pursuant to Article 59 of the Labor Standards Act?
12. After an occupational accident, if the insured person works half a day and goes to hospital for rehabilitation the other half of the day and receives only part of his/her salary, can he/she claim the injury or sickness benefit of the occupational accident insurance?
13. If an insured person suffers from a major disease and holds a major injury/disease card, can he/she apply for the injury or sickness benefit?
14. If an insured unit has premium arrears, can an insured person who works for it apply for the injury or sickness benefit because of his/her hospitalization for injury or sickness?
15. What is the qualification and benefit standard for claiming injury and sickness benefits?
16. Can the insured person apply for occupational injury benefits if the incident leading to the injury occurs when commuting to or from work?
Disability Benefits
1. What is the qualification and benefit standard for claiming disability benefits?
2. What documents are required when applying for disability benefits?
3. Where can the insured person obtain the related data for labor insurance disability benefits standard?
4. After the implementation of newly amended Labor Insurance Act on January 1, 2009, do disability benefits could only be claimed monthly?
5. If the insured person claims disability pension benefits, what kind of qualifications should the insured person’s spouse and children meet to claim for extra dependent allowances?
6. If a Labor Insurance insured person is more than 60 years of age and has more than 20 years of insurance coverage, and has become vegetable state after receiving medical treatment for cerebral hemorrhage, could he/she claim for old age pension and disability pension benefits?
7. If an insured person has severe disability, is it true that no matter the insured person claim for lump sum-disability benefits or disability pension benefits, he/she could not claim death benefits when he/she dies?
8. If an insured person of Labor Insurance has participated in National Pension Insurance, Could he/she include the insurance coverage year of National Pension Insurance when claiming for disability benefits? How would the benefit amount be calculated?
9. If an insurance person of labor insurance loses eight of his/her teeth due to a traffic accident, Could he/she claim for disability benefits?
10. Is an insured person eligible for disability benefits for having organ transplant on the viscera in Chest and Abdomen?
11. Is a dialysis patient eligible for disability benefits?
12. Is a female insured person eligible for claiming disability benefits after having hysterectomy due to uterine fibroids at more than 45 years of age?
13. Should an insured person withdraw from labor insurance coverage after applying and received disability benefits?
14. In the event that an insured person withdraws from insurance coverage and is diagnosed of having an occupational sickness and determined as permanently disable, is he/she eligible for occupational benefits payment?
15. What is the disability pension’s individualized professional assessment mechanism?
16. Why does it need to append the “individualized professional assessment mechanism”? Does it have a premise of law?
17. When has the individualized professional assessment mechanism been implemented? When an individualized has collected the onetime payout on the same disability condition prior to the induction of the scheme, can the individualized revamp to collecting the pension payout through the assessment mechanism?
18. Following the induction of the individualized professional assessment mechanism, has the disability benefits application method been changed? How does one apply for the individualized professional assessment?
19. Do all individuals filing for the “disability pension payout” required to undergo the individualized professional assessment?
20. Upon undergoing the individualized professional assessment, will an individualized be eligible to collect the pension by month?
21. To collect the pension payout through the individualized professional assessment, if an individualized has already sent in the old form, can the individualized change whose application to the disability pension payout scheme?
22. How long does it take to undergo the individualized professional assessment? When will the pension payout be released?
23. Upon undergoing the individualized professional assessment, are there any differences to an individual’s relevant equity? How does the amount of the disability pension payout calculated?
24. During the period of collecting the disability pension payment, can an individual continue to join the insurance? Can the individual collect the old-age benefits?
Old-Age Benefits
1. What is the qualification and benefit standard for claiming old-age benefits?
2. What is the qualification and benefit standard for claiming an old-age lump-sum benefits?
3. What is the qualification and benefit standard for claiming one time old-age benefits?
4. How is old-age benefits applied?
5. The age for old-age benefits is based on actual age or nominal age?
6. I have already participated in Labor Insurance for 18 years and I am 56 years of age but I am still working, Could I claim one-time old-age benefits now?
7. I participated in Labor Insurance after the implementation of Labor Insurance Pension on January 1 of 2009, Could I also claim for one-time old-age benefits?
8. I am 50 years old when Labor Insurance Pension is implemented, when could I claim for old-age pension benefits?
9. I have resigned from work and withdrew from insurance for many years. If I want to apply for old-age benefits at 65 years old, do I still need the insured unit to affix its seal?
10. If I am already 60 years old in January of 2010 with 25 years of insurance coverage seniority and have withdrew from Labor Insurance, I originally still want to find a job but without success until I am 62 years old, How much old-age pension could I receive?
11. If I am already 60 years old on April of 2010 with 30 years of insurance coverage seniority, and I have already withdrew from Labor Insurance coverage. But I didn’t file an application until December of 2010 and the time delay for claiming pension is less than 1 year, whether I am able to claim the extra amount of pension for delaying pension claim?
12. Is it true that the old-age pension could be claimed in advance?
13. If I claim old-age pension 3 years in advance, and after I have gotten 3 years of old-age pension at 60 years old, Could I change to claim full amount of old-age pension without the deduction?
14. If I claim for old-age pension in advance and after I have received the pension for some times, I find a new job, Can I retract and stop the pension benefit?
Survivor Benefits
Death of the Insured
1. What are the qualifications, claiming order and benefit standards for claiming survivor benefits?
2. What are the documents needed for claiming survivor benefits?
3. If an insured person doesn’t have a beneficiary as defined in Labor Insurance Act, could a beneficiary be appointed? If not, how could funeral grant be claimed?
4. In the event that an insured person dies but left with spouse, could the insured person’s parents claim survivor benefits?
5. In case a foreign worker dies, or the survivors of an insured person do not have household registration in Taiwan, how should the survivors claim the survivor benefits?
6. In the event that an insured person is dead, and has divorced with his/her spouse and has under age children, how could his/her beneficiary apply for death compensation?
7. If an insured person dies during the effective period of the insurance and he/she has met the qualifications for claiming old-age benefits, could the insured person’s beneficiary choose to collect one-time old-age benefits?
8. If, after receiving the labor insurance old-age benefits, an insured person is hired to be actually engaged in work again, voluntarily participates in the occupational accident insurance program and then dies, can his/her survivors claim the survivor benefits?
9. What the “marriage relationship lasting more than 1 year” means?
10. Whether the application and issuance of survivor pension are the same with other pension?
11. Is the survivor’s pension receivable for life?
12. In case there are two or more persons who claim the funeral grant or the survivor’s pension (allowance), how shall the benefit be paid? If they cannot reach an agreement, how will the BLI pay the benefit to them?
13. In case among the survivors who have the same priority in claiming the survivor benefits, one would like to claim the survivor pension while another would like to claim the survivor allowances, how can the problem be solved?
14. If an insured person dies while receiving the old-age pension, can his/her survivors still claim the funeral grant?
15. Suppose there is an insured person who is diagnosed as being permanently incapacitated for work and receives the disability benefits and whose labor insurance is directly terminated by the BLI according to the law. If this insured person dies within one year after the termination of force of said insurance because of the same injury or disease as occurred when he/she was still covered by said insurance or because of a disease resulting from aforesaid injury or disease, can the survivor benef
16. When the survivor pension payment is remitted to a bank account overseas each month, there is a handling charge to be paid. Can the BLI reduce the charge?
17. After terminating his/her labor insurance, an insured person claims the mental/physical disability pension when he/she is covered by the national pension insurance, based on the combined years of both labor insurance coverage and national pension insurance coverage. The insured person dies within one year after termination of the labor insurance and his/her case is in compliance with Article 20 of the Labor Insurance Act. How should the labor insurance survivor benefits be paid?
18. In the event of a severely disabled insured person, is it true that whether he/she has received the disability benefits in one lump-sum or the disability pension benefits, his/her survivor cannot claim the survivor benefits if he/she dies in the future?
Death of Family Members (Funeral Grant)
1. What is the qualification and benefit standard for claiming funeral grant?
2. What are the documents Required to apply for funeral grant?
3. If the dependent of a foreign labor dies, could the insured foreign labor claim funeral grant? What are the documents Required?
4. When an insured person claims a funeral grant because of the death of his/her parent, spouse or child, is there any requirement about the years of insurance coverage?
5. Two brothers both participate in Labor Insurance. When their parents are dead, whether the two brothers could claim funeral grant separately?
6. If more than two insured persons apply for the funeral grant, how should the grant be paid? If they cannot reach an agreement, how will the BLI pay them?
7. Two brothers participate in Labor Insurance and Government Employee’s Insurance individually. When their parents are dead, whether they could claim funeral grant separately?
8. When an insured person dies, if any of his/her survivors, such as his/her spouse, parent or child, is also covered by the labor insurance, can this survivor claim the benefit for the death of a family member?
9. If an insured person delivers a baby or gives a premature birth, but the baby dies before the birth is registered, can a funeral grant for death of a family member be claimed?
10. If an insured person gives a stillbirth or if her fetus or baby dies in her womb, can she claim a funeral grant for death of a family member?
Designated Labor Insurance Accounts
1. What is a “Designated Account for Labor Insurance Benefits”? Why is it different from the regular accounts?
2. What are the benefits of establishing a Designated Account for Labor Insurance Benefits?
3. How to apply for a Designated Account for Labor Insurance Benefits?
4. In case an individual has already opened a designated account for the employment insurance benefits, national pension payment, labor pension payment (monthly payment), farmers pension or welfare allowance for elderly farmers, can this account be used for the deposits of labor insurance benefits?
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2019-08-20
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