Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe said today that if lawmakers can't accept modern life, "then go back to the Stone Age!" (Photo by reporter Zheng Mingxiang)

[Reporter Zheng Mingxiang/Taipei Report] The Taipei City Government will resume the distribution of Chongyang Respect for the Elderly Fund of 1,200 yuan next year. However, because it planned to use the Easy Travel card instead of cash, many Taipei City Councillors rebounded and decided to suspend the budget of the Social Affairs Bureau. In this regard, Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe said today that if these lawmakers cannot accept modern life, "then go back to the Stone Age!"

The Beishi Bureau of Social Affairs plans to limit the receipt of the EasyCard and the use of the card to 1,200 yuan for the old-age pension. DPP member Xu Shuhua advocates that the payment should be made in cash, and Kuomintang member Wang Hao also criticized the method as "unreasonable", reducing the multiple payment methods to "one yuan". Non-party member Chen Zhengzhong advocated the use of questionnaires for elders to choose, and People's Party member Lim Guocheng also believed that the distribution methods should be diversified.

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In this regard, Ke Wenzhe attended the Garden City Forum this morning to fight back. There are settings for the administrative cost of paying the old-age pension. If the elders are asked to go to the supermarket to receive the red envelopes with their cards, it can save a lot of costs. In the open vote, if these members cannot accept modern life, "then go back to the Stone Age!"