TAIPEI RESIDENTS: The city health department said that only one of a married couple had to be a Taipei resident to qualify for the maximum subsidy of NT$2,250

Taipei Times
Date: Mar 05, 2019
By: Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter

Subsidies for pre-pregnancy health examinations this month would be expanded to married couples of whom only one is a Taipei resident, the Taipei Department of Health said yesterday.

There were 15,193 marriages registered in Taipei last year, 964 fewer than the year before, Health Promotion Division Director Lin Meng-hui (林夢蕙) said, citing Ministry of the Interior data.

Among Taipei residents, the average age for a first marriage was 31.5 for women and 33.7 for men, while the average age for the first birth was 32.72, the oldest nationwide, Lin said.

To encourage births, the department has expanded pre-pregnancy health exam subsidies to include married couples who do not have children and with at least one Taipei resident, she said, adding that the maximum subsidy was NT$2,250, which involves NT$1,595 for eight items to be screened for women and NT$655 for five for men.   [FULL  STORY]