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No Pension Payment to Retired Teachers in China

The China Post Staff

May 12, 2004

Retired schoolteachers are not entitled to monthly pension payment, if they stay in China more than 183 days a year, according to the new Ministry of Education (MOE) rules published yesterday. 

They shall be given lump sum retirement pay, an MOE spokesman said. 
Those schoolteachers who now reside in China and receive monthly pension pay are required to apply for their lump sum pay, which will be at least half that given new Taiwan resident retirees. 

Retirees residing abroad except in China are not affected by the MOE rules, which have been revised in accordance with the amended Statute Governing the Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area. 
"Anyone who wants to retire and go live in China now," the MOE spokesman said, "has to apply for lump sum retirement pay." 

Should they apply for monthly payment and go to China to live there, they would have to limit to their stay below 183 days a year. 

"Otherwise," the MOE spokesman warned, "their retirement pay would be frozen, and they have to come back to get a new household registration before they can receive any payment at all." 

He said the rules went into force on March 1, though no announcement was made of the change at that time. 

That did not sit well with the National Education Association (NEA), a union of schoolteachers. 

Lu Hsiu-chu, NEA president, complained that the union members had been kept in the dark. 

"How could they make the rules retroactive?" Lu fumed. 

She questioned why those members resident in China have been singled out. "Why it's okay with retired schoolteachers living in foreign countries?" she asked. 


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