Future account plan could deplete resources: ministerLIMITATIONS: T aiwan in 2017 launched an education account program, and the legislature should discuss how to improve that policy, Shih Chung-liang saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe opposition parties’ suggestion of setting up a government-funded “Taiwan Future Account” for all children could deplete resources available for underprivileged groups, Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) said yesterday. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) on Dec. 25 announced their draft future account plan, which suggests that the government set up a universal special investment account for children aged 12 or younger that can only be claimed after they turn 18 years old. Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang, left, listens to an official at a joint committee meeting at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. “However, every policy is a choice, and [government] resources are limited, so policies can have a crowding-out effect on each other,” he said. “Of course, we can discuss how to improve the [current] policy,” Shih said.
