According to Taiwan media reports, the Kuomintang mayor candidate Zhang Shanzheng visited Fuxing District today and was asked about Taoyuan Mayor Zheng Wencan's opinion on reducing the three-fee respect for the elderly last year. He said that Zheng Wencan reduced the three-chamber elderly care funds from 2,500 to 2,000 yuan, which made the old man feel a little unhappy. After he was elected mayor, he would first increase the elderly care funds from Chongyang to 2,500 yuan to express his kindness.
Zhang Shanzheng said that to adjust the three-section elderly care funds, the first step is to increase the elderly care funds from 2,000 yuan to 2,500 yuan to let the elderly know his respect for the elderly, and he hopes to express his kindness first. In addition, the three-section elderly care fund will strive to improve the municipal government's finances. Through investment promotion and technology, the municipal government's finances will be improved, and then the three-section elderly care fund will be adjusted in phases.
In response to this, Shi Weiliang, chief of the Elderly Welfare Section of the Social Bureau of Taoyuan Municipal Government, said that the three-section of elderly care gifts are unique to Taoyuan City and are not legal social welfare expenditures. In addition to being repeatedly corrected by auditing units, as the elderly population increases rapidly, it has become a financial burden on the municipal government. In order to meet the arrival of an elderly society and to avoid the rapid and rapid growth of illegal social welfare budgets, the city government has given priority allocation of limited resources to comply with the principles of social fairness and justice.
Shi Weiliang said that since last year, the city government excluded the comprehensive income tax rate of households to 20% (that is, the net income of households exceeds 1.21 million yuan), and adjusted the amount to 2,000 yuan per person per section, so the amount of payment was reduced from 2.11 billion yuan to 1.690 billion yuan. However, if the amount is not adjusted and the exclusion of wealth, according to the average growth rate of the city's elderly population in recent years, the city's elderly population will be about 430,000 by 2026, and the budget for distributing three festival gifts will reach more than 3.2 billion yuan; by 2031, the elderly population will reach more than 620,000, and the budget will reach more than 4.67 billion yuan. The city government thanks the city's elders for their understanding, so that future generations can still enjoy complete care and benefits when they enter the old age.