Lin does not hide the fact that, like Hsinchu, Taipei County faces the dilemma of its elderly subsidy taking up a huge portion of the county's budget. (Though only is sued four times a year, the subsidy still took half of the NT $ 5.8 billion welfare budget for 1999.)
此外，雖然一年僅發放四個月，但林萬億不諱言，台北縣同樣面臨著敬老津貼耗費太多縣府社福預算（佔掉八十八年度社福業務費五十八億元的一半左右）的窘境。