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Taipei Mayor and Puma Shen Clash over Postpartum Subsidies

The city will pay NT$30,000 per birth and expects about 11,000 mothers to qualify each year, officials said.

Summary by Taipei Times
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party Legislator and mayoral candidate Puma Shen (沈伯洋) yesterday clashed over competing subsidies to help expectant mothers. Chiang announced his policies at a news conference in Taipei yesterday, sayi

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Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an announced on the 19th that Taipei City has once again become the first in the country to issue a "postpartum care allowance" of NT$30,000 per child. Furthermore, it has launched additional policies to integrate medical care, postpartum care, and childcare. Through cross-departmental resource integration, the support extends to all stages from pre-pregnancy, childbirth, childcare to settling down, reducing the economic …

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Focus Taiwan broke the news in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
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