The national pension for the elderly, currently in the planning stage, is expected to reach the NT $ 100 billion level. Although actual implementation of the program was originally postponed to 1998, "with the Legislative Yuan elections coming up at the end of this year, it might not be possible to put it off that long," suggests Lin Wan-yi, a professor of sociology at National Taiwan University.
正在規劃中的國民年金，預料也是屬於「千億元級」的施政，目前雖然預定延至民國八十七年後才實施，但「在今年底立法委員選舉的壓力下，要拖那麼久才實施，恐怕不可能！」台大社會系教授林萬億斷言。