UNFAIR: Having a pension plan does not mean a spouse is rich, the New Taipei City Education Union secretary-general said. Legislator Yu Mei-nu said such rules exist in Germany
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 16, 2018
By: Ann Maxon / Staff reporter
A group of public school teachers yesterday protested outside the Democratic Progressive
Public school teachers protest legislation that provides pensions for divorced spouses of public school teachers and civil servants outside the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) central headquarters in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
Party’s (DPP) headquarters in Taipei against provisions in a law set to take effect in July that would allow public school teachers’ spouses without a pension plan to receive part of their pension after a divorce.
About 20 teachers called for the Act Governing Retirement, Severance, and Bereavement Compensation for the Teaching and Other Staff Members of Public Schools (公立學校教職員退休資遣撫卹條例) to be amended.
Until the law takes effect, pensions are not considered part of a married couple’s shared assets and do not have to be redistributed upon divorce.
However, the act stipulates that teachers’ spouses of more than two years who are not on a pension plan can claim part of a teacher’s pension in case of a divorce.
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