National Pension Act Article 35

Before participating in the Insurance, the insured persons were diagnosed as having severe mentally/physically disability with no capability to work as stipulated in Article 33 and had lived in ROC more than 183 days per year for three consecutive years before applying for mentally/physically disability basic guaranteed pension payments are entitled to, during the validation of the Insurance, apply for mentally/physically disability basic guaranteed pension payments of NT4,000 dollars per month per person if none of the following apply:1. Recipient of pension or lump sum payments of related social insurance for severe mentally/physically disability.2. Qualified for one of the items stipulated in Article 31, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 1, 3,4,5,6.The insured persons are not entitled to apply for mentally/physically disability pension payments if they have already applied for basic guaranteed pension payments for mentally/physically disability according to the rule of the previous paragraph. However, they’re entitled to switch to apply for old age pension payments if they are aged 65 or above.