The Legislative Yuan requires the Executive Yuan to propose amendments to the "Regulations on the Treatment of Military Personnel", the "Regulations on Police Personnel Personnel" and related military, public and educational security measures within six months after this year's general budget is handed down. The Executive Yuan has submitted a report on "The Government's Specific Actions to Strengthen Military, Public, Educational, and Education Support" to the Legislative Yuan. According to the report, so far in 114 years, a total of 99.508 billion yuan has been invested in increasing the benefits of military, public, educational, and police personnel of all types, including 34.605 billion yuan for military personnel and 13.089 billion yuan for police and fire fighters.
The Executive Yuan stated that it has continued to improve the salary of all types of military, public, educational and police personnel since 2014, and this year also proposed the "116th Annual Salary Improvement Plan for Military, Public, Educational and Police Employees". In terms of military personnel, five new benefit items were added, including volunteer service bonus, combat unit bonus, combat air traffic control, electronic reconnaissance, cyber warfare and other service bonuses, benefiting a total of 175,000 people, and the funding increased by 34.605 billion yuan.
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In the police and fire department, 6 new benefits were added, including heavy police duty bonus, criminal bonus, fire hazard bonus, police and fire work bonus, and late-night hazardous duty allowance, benefiting a total of 85,000 people and increasing funding by 13.089 billion yuan.
The Executive Yuan pointed out that from 2015 to the present, in the military sector, taking officers and soldiers of key combat units as an example, the monthly salaries of privates at the grassroots level to lieutenant colonel and battalion commanders have increased by NT$18,705 to NT$27,025 respectively, with an increase of 48.43% to 38.45%. For police personnel, taking the third-level sergeant as an assistant to the first-level police chief as an example, the salary increases range from 11,360 yuan to 24,250 yuan respectively, with an increase of 23.5% to 32.8%.
For civil servants (excluding police and firefighters), in addition to increasing bonuses for transportation, engineering, agriculture, justice, and information security in 2014, professional and supervisory bonuses will also be increased by 2,000 yuan each from July 2015, and salaries will be increased by 4% next year. Taking general non-supervisory civil servants as an example, the monthly salary increase ranges from 9.98% to 5.88%, and the higher the increase at the grassroots level, a total of 280,000 civil servants will benefit.
In terms of educational personnel, the part-time teachers in public colleges and universities, part-time and substitute teachers in public primary and secondary schools, part-time and substitute teachers in public primary and secondary schools, additional bonuses for tutors, additional bonuses for special education positions, hourly fees for teaching support personnel, and bonuses for new administrative work have been gradually increased, adding up to an increase of 22.076 billion yuan, benefiting 180,000 people.
As for police and firefighters’ pensions, the Executive Yuan emphasized that retirement rights have been improved. Taking retired police officers with 35 years of certified service as an example, the upper limit of the retirement income replacement rate has been increased to 69%, and the average monthly pension has been increased from 59,672 yuan to 62,972 yuan. Compared with the salary of current police officers as of January 1, 2016, it is slightly higher than the monthly salary of 150 yuan for new grassroots police officers and 150 yuan for county and city police officers.
The Executive Yuan pointed out that if the upper limit of the retirement income replacement rate is significantly increased to 78.25% in accordance with the "Police Personnel Regulations" read on the third reading of the Legislative Yuan, the average monthly pension will reach 71,935 yuan, which is equivalent to the monthly salary of a county and city police officer with a 245 salary for the fourth-level police officer at the grassroots level, 73,630 yuan. The gap between the benefits of retired and active personnel will be significantly narrowed, which may trigger a wave of retirements and affect the manpower at the grassroots level.
