Farmer Health Insurance Act Article 5

A member of the farmer association as referred to in Article 12 of the Farmer Association Act who is engaged in agricultural work and has not received the old-aged benefits of other related social insurances may join in this Insurance program as an insured person, and the basic-level farmer association to which he belongs to shall be the insured unit.If a farmer over 15 years old who is not a member of farmer association as referred to in the preceding paragraph, and engaged in agricultural work and has not received the old-aged benefits of other related social insurances may join in this Insurance program as an insured person, the basic-level farmer association in the household registration shall act as the insured unit.The members of this Insurance program who have received the old-aged benefits of other related social insurances or who have applied for the old-aged benefits of other related social insurances prior to enforcement of this revised Act on January 30, 2013 may be allowed to continue the coverage of this Insurance program after the amendment; the insured members who have lost their qualifications of the Insurance program due to qualification changes may apply for joining the program in accordance with regulations after the amendment.The insured members of the farmer association in this Insurance, are still considered qualified for the enrollment in the regulations in Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 if through the examination of the insured unit which located in the region where the insured have their household registered after they move their household registrations out from the area of the farmer association or lose their membership due to the alterations of their membership conditions . The effectiveness of the insurance of these members starts from the date when the members take up a new household registration in the area of the farmer association or when the members lose the membership conditions. If these insured members lose their membership due to the alterations of their membership qualifications before November 27, 2008, these members can re-apply for insurance qualification examination to the insured unit which located in the region where the insured have their household registered within two years after the amendments to the Act, promulgated on January 27, 2010, became effective. After the examination, if these members still qualify the provisions prior to the amendments of this Act on January 5, 2010, their insurance qualifications will become effective on the date these members lose their membership. Even the insured persons pass away before his/her application for insurance re-enrollment is presented to the insured establishment which located in the region where the insured have their household registered and the examination of the qualifications is finished, the insured’s family members are allowed to file a membership examination with certificates.Before the amendment of this Article is promulgated and enforced on November 26, 2008, the insured persons in Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 who are deprived of the insured status due to the alteration of the household registration have certainly paid the insurance premium and suffered from the illness within the valid period of insurance coverage and are thus diagnosed as disabled incurred from this illness, are allowed to re-file an application for disability payment before November 27, 2010, exempt from the restrictions in the regulations in Article 36.The standards for determination of the farmers engaged in agricultural work as referred to in the first and second paragraphs and the regulations on examination of their qualifications shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.