Ministry blames system overload for voucher snagBy Angelica Oung / Staff reporterThe Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday blamed technical difficulties for disruptions to the distribution of Triple Stimulus Vouchers on the first day of their release, and denied reports that it was halting distributions at the nation’s major convenience store chains. A surge in demand crashed the computer system, causing significant delays in the vouchers’ distribution, the ministry said. A Hi-Life International Co Ltd clerk, right, hands Triple Stimulus Vouchers to a customer in Taipei yesterday. The government designed the voucher system to maximize the effect of the stimulus, National Central University economics professor Dachrahn Wu (吳大任) told the Taipei Times by the telephone yesterday. The government “could put in NT$50 billion [US$1.7 billion] in stimulus and get NT$150 billion in economic activity,” Wu said.

Source: Taipei Times July 15, 2020 15:56 UTC