Act Governing Retirement of and Bereavement Compensation for Employees of Post and Telecommunications Enterprises under the MOTC Article 22
The surviving dependents shall receive a bereavement compensation, consolation payment or funeral and burial subsidy payment in the following sequence:1. Parents, spouse, children and widow-in-law. Spouse and widow-in-law are entitled to such payment(s) if not remarried.2. Grandparents and grandchildren.3. Siblings. Only minors or adults who are incapable of earning a living are entitled.4. The spouse’s parents and grandparents. Only those who are dependent yet unsupported are entitled.Children and grandchildren who receive a monthly bereavement compensation or a monthly consolation payment under the preceding Paragraph, who are minors, or adults incapable of earning a living, or who have reached the legal age while continuing education, may continue to receive the compensation until a bachelor degree is obtained. Those who are enrolled in schools with no required length of study, such as an open university, shall be disbursed a monthly pension or a monthly consolation payment according to the length of study for bachelor's degrees stipulated in other laws and regulations. In case of more than three children or grandchildren, an additional ten percent (10%) of monthly bereavement compensation or monthly consolation payment shall be disbursed based on the rates specified in Article 19 and Article 20.The term “adults incapable of earning a living” used in the Subparagraph 3, Paragraph 1 refers to those who meet the requirements of total disability or partial disability specified in the Public Servant and Teacher Insurance Disability Benefit Payment Standards and have been recognized by a certificate of diagnosis issued by a hospital above the district-hospital level.The term “those who are dependent yet unsupported” used in Subparagraph 4, Paragraph 1 refers to the surviving dependents who have no relatives with legal obligations to support them under the Civil Code and are recognized by the Office of Township (Town, City or District) as unable to support themselves make a living.In case the deceased retired employees of post and telecommunications enterprises had designated through their wills the recipients of their bereavement compensation, consolation payment or funeral and burial subsidy, the scope of “surviving dependents” in Paragraph 1 shall be adjusted accordingly.
中文原文 交通部郵電事業人員退休撫卹條例第22條
領受撫卹金、撫慰金或殮葬補助費之遺族，依下列順序定之：
一、父母、配偶、子女及寡媳。
但配偶及寡媳，以未再婚者為限。
二、祖父母、孫子女。
三、兄弟姊妹，以未成年或已成年而不能謀生者為限。
四、配偶之父母、配偶之祖父母，以無人扶養者為限。
前項領受月撫卹金或月撫慰金之子女、孫子女，以未成年，或已成年而不能謀生，或已成年而學校教育未中斷者，得繼續給卹至取得學士學位為止；其屬就讀空中大學等無修業年限規定之學校者，參照其他法令所定取得學士學位之修業年限，發給月撫卹金或月撫慰金。
子女或孫子女超過三人者，其月撫卹金或月撫慰金，按第十九條、第二十條所定比率，加給百分之十。
第一項第三款所稱已成年而不能謀生者，係指符合公教人員保險失能給付標準所定之全失能或半失能標準，經地區醫院以上之醫院出具診斷證明書者。
第一項第四款所稱無人扶養者，係指無民法規定應負扶養義務之親屬，且該遺族不能維持生活，又無謀生能力，經鄉（鎮、市、區）公所證明者。
第一項遺族，郵電事業人員生前以遺囑指定領受撫卹金、撫慰金或殮葬補助費者，從其遺囑。
一、父母、配偶、子女及寡媳。
但配偶及寡媳，以未再婚者為限。
二、祖父母、孫子女。
三、兄弟姊妹，以未成年或已成年而不能謀生者為限。
四、配偶之父母、配偶之祖父母，以無人扶養者為限。
前項領受月撫卹金或月撫慰金之子女、孫子女，以未成年，或已成年而不能謀生，或已成年而學校教育未中斷者，得繼續給卹至取得學士學位為止；其屬就讀空中大學等無修業年限規定之學校者，參照其他法令所定取得學士學位之修業年限，發給月撫卹金或月撫慰金。
子女或孫子女超過三人者，其月撫卹金或月撫慰金，按第十九條、第二十條所定比率，加給百分之十。
第一項第三款所稱已成年而不能謀生者，係指符合公教人員保險失能給付標準所定之全失能或半失能標準，經地區醫院以上之醫院出具診斷證明書者。
第一項第四款所稱無人扶養者，係指無民法規定應負扶養義務之親屬，且該遺族不能維持生活，又無謀生能力，經鄉（鎮、市、區）公所證明者。
第一項遺族，郵電事業人員生前以遺囑指定領受撫卹金、撫慰金或殮葬補助費者，從其遺囑。