Government refutes misleading claims about travel restrictions for pensioners

Описание: In recent weeks, protests and debates around the pension reform law have continued unabated. One claim circulating online has been refuted as misleading by the National Security Agency. It was claimed that state employees'' foreign travel would effectively be restricted by the new pension system. Labor representatives say that their objections to the reform are still valid. Online speculation has been circulating recently, claiming that under the new pension law, retired state employees will have to report foreign travel or risk losing their monthly pension. The National Security Bureau has discovered that these claims originated on Chinese social networking sites.Lin Wan-iMinister Without PortfolioIn fact, it’s not just that these claims are exaggerations, and even rather misleading in their insinuation that the law deliberately clamps down on state employees’ foreign travel. There are also rumors that we are delaying the payment of military veterans’ pensions due to US pressure. Huang Yao-nanNational Federation of Education UnionsThere are some who want to manipulate this situation. We should actually condemn those people, rather than once more discrediting state employees, and saying that we’ve been biased by the communists.The pension reform committee has stated that if retired state employees go abroad while their pension allocation is being reviewed, and the pension agency has no means of contacting them, the payment of the pension will be temporarily delayed. When the individual returns to Taiwan, any payments that were delayed will be paid in full.