Offshore Islands Development Act Article 12

The Ministry of Education shall allocate a budget to subsidize the textbook expenditure and miscellaneous expenses of students who receive national compulsory education on offshore islands.Where the lack of a school on an offshore island necessitates a student going to the main island of Taiwan or another offshore island to receive compulsory education, his/her two- way travel expenses shall be subsidized from a budget allocated by the Ministry of Education. But when, due to transportation and communication factors, a student is unable to return the same day to the offshore island on which he/she resides, he/she may use this travel allowance to pay the necessary living expenses for staying in the area in which his/her school is situated.