Or does it encourage them to live on handouts and keep them out of work longer? When the China Times Express folded in November 2005, sports reporter Wang Wen and several colleagues who hadn't already lined up other jobs began receiving unemployment payments. The monthly payments of NT $ 25,000 were enough for Wang, a divorcee in his 40s, to make it through the next six months comfortably.
2005 年 11 月，中時晚報吹起了熄燈號，體育記者王文（化名）與其他沒能立即找到工作的同事們，開始申領就業保險中的「失業給付」，一個月最高額二萬五千多元（現調漲為 26,340 元），足夠四十多歲、離婚單身的王文安穩地過了半年。