Executive President Zhuo Rongtai calls on the Legislative Yuan to help complete the review of the general budget and supplementary budget

Executive President Zhuo Rongtai called on the Legislative Yuan to be a support for the Executive Yuan and not to create resistance, so that the general budget and supplementary budget can be completed within the legal deadline. (Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)

Salary increases for the military, public education, farmers' allowances, national pensions and six major social welfare expenditures, which affect nearly 3.9 million people, have been included in this year's supplementary budget sent in September. People from all walks of life are concerned that if the review is not completed before the end of the year, it may become invalid. Executive President Zhuo Rongtai today (2nd) called on the Legislative Yuan to be a support for the Executive Yuan and not to create resistance, so that the general budget and supplementary budget can be completed within the legal deadline.

The Executive Yuan proposed the "Supplementary Budget to the Central Government General Budget for 2015", which allocated NT$607.6 billion and submitted it to the Legislative Yuan for review. In addition to increasing welfare subsidies for elderly farmers, national pensions and six major social welfare subsidies, as well as professional bonuses and supervisory bonuses for military, public and educational personnel, the content also includes funds to subsidize Taipower's frozen increase in electricity prices, increase investment in China Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan, and subsidize the frozen and moderate price increases of China National Petroleum Corporation's gasoline, diesel and natural gas prices, as well as the frozen and moderate price increases of domestic liquefied petroleum gas prices of China National Petroleum Corporation and Formosa Plastics.

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The Legislative Yuan will hold a general question on the policy address today. Before Zhuo Rongtai entered the meeting, some media asked whether social welfare subsidies would not be paid if the supplementary budget was not passed. Zhuo stopped and responded, "Today we are here to strive for both the general budget and the supplementary budget to be completed within the legal deadline."

Zhuo Rongtai expressed the hope that the Executive Yuan can advance in accordance with established procedures and steps, and that the Legislative Yuan will be a support to the Executive Yuan and not cause resistance to various national competitions.

Executive Yuan spokesperson Li Huizhi also explained yesterday that the government policy not only increases the pension for old farmers, but also systematically adjusts the national pension and the six major social welfare subsidies by 23.5%, and they have been included in this year’s supplementary budget and will be paid retroactively from July 1; the increase in military, public and educational benefits will also be retroactively retroactive to July 1. Li Huizhi pointed out that if the supplementary budget is not reviewed before December 31, it will become invalid, and all the retroactive increases in July this year will not be released.

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