@morran01 I can second you on this one, my wife kept her NHI active by paying her own contributions. We only ever came to Taiwan for a holiday and to see family, Her hukou as always been active even though she was a permeant resident in another country.
Crazy shitty system to allow that abuse of NIH and they moan about Chinese students here legitimately .
No wonder those old fuckers ‘come home for the vote’.
That is residency for tax.
NHI doesn’t care how many days people who already have NHI stay in Taiwan.
If they pay, no problem. But if they are military, they do not have to.
More like how much in taxes, what contribution to pension?
He worked at uni and government.
Which means his family before him did too, and that he´s getting 18% on who knows what salary from 50 years ago, while speweing anti Taiwan trash for the motherland.
Sigh.
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“The health insurance system and pension program are meant for the 23 million Taiwanese citizens whose hard work makes the benefits possible, he added.”
Not for foreign residents and their dependents, migrant workers, domestics, foreign students, etc according to Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌). Spouting empty slogans ignorant of the law.
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If only participation was optional!
It was worse when we could not have access to NHI. Thing is, people who reside in Taiwan buy Taiwan stuff, pay taxes, etc. help the economy in ways people who do not live abroadbut pay a minimum yet take more benefits -pension- just on name, not deed. Those are double dipping, or in the case of the guy of this story, triple.
We need a charitable person to inform US government this guy has a PRC passport…
Why would the U.S. have a problem with that? China is the one that doesn’t allow dual citizenship.
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Rats, thought US would have an issue with that. Lovely to collect two pensions and a bag of silver.
For anyone married with children on a reasonable salary it would be far cheaper to buy private insurance and have access to proper medical care.
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Most foreigners here are SEA housewives, no salary per se. Same with laborers. And students. That is the largest part of the foreigners in Taiwan. I remember when we as students struggled to pay the 400/600 NTD per hospital visit.
And I have a decent salary but my private extra insurance ain´t cheap.
Yep, we get the pleasure of subsidizing their medical bills, along with all the retired, particularly the retired military who don’t pay anything!
they can get NHI because it is mandatory. If it’s optional, there are many people with no insurance.
Actually, we “subsidize” everyone´s bills and they “subsidize” ours. It is a 3 party system, where each one pays according to salary tier. That is why I say living here and buying stuff and paying taxes has such an impact on it.
The problem of people who give birth to Taiwanese citizens yet have limited rights is another whole story/can of worms.
It is not only the retired military who do not pay.
They can get NHI because money is taken out of others pockets to subsidize them.
Certainly not subsidizing mine. I’ve been forced to put in far more than I will ever take out or want to take out. It’s a completely broken system, but hey, it’s cheap (for some)!
people who don’t need to take out that much from NHI are lucky.
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