The Regulations is promulgated according to Paragraph 2 of Article 23 and Paragraph 4 of Article 24 of the Employment Service Act (hereinafter as the Act).

The Regulations is applicable to the following persons:
1. Those who are involuntarily unemployed.
2. Those who are unemployed as listed in Paragraph 1 of Article 24 of the Act.
Persons designated in the preceding paragraph shall have job ability and willingness to work.

Persons designated in Paragraph 1 of Article 2 with the following situations are not applicable to the Regulations:
1.Those who have received pension from the Civil Servants and Teachers Insurance or the old-aged benefit from the Labor Insurance.
2.Those who have received military retirement payment or retirement payment of the public-owned enterprises.
The foresaid persons in conformity with the social aide, low income household, or middle-/low-income household qualification who collect the middle-/low-income elderly living allowance or the physical/mental handicapped living allowance, may be applicable to the Regulations.

The Central Competent Authority may consider such circumstances as domestic economic development, nationals’ unemployment and budget utilization to provide the following employment promotion allowances:
1. Job application transportation allowance.
2. Temporary job allowance.
3. Living allowance for vocational training.
The allowances listed in the preceding Paragraph can be paid through appointed or entrusted public employment service institutions or vocational training units.
The termination of allowances payment referred to in Paragraph 1 shall be publicly announced by the Central Competent Authority.

Persons designated in Paragraph 1 of Article 2 apply for the allowances referred to in Subparagraphs 1 to 3 of Paragraph 1 of Article 4, shall present a copy of both sides of the National Identification Card, a form of consigned agreement for the inquiry of the Labor Insurance records, and the following documents:
1. Persons who financially support families alone: copy of household registration proving documents, such as household certificate of one’s own and the dependent relative(s); copy of certificate of enrollment or document(s) proving the incapability of work of the dependent relative(s) shall be submitted if the relative(s) is aged from fifteen to sixty-five years old.
2. The disabled: copy of the disability card or identification.
3. Indigenous peoples: copy of household registration proving documents, such as the household certificate with remark stating the identity of aboriginal.
4. Persons from medium or low-income families: copy of low-income or near poor households certificate documents.
5. Women seeking re-employment: copy of document(s) proving that the end of the last employment is due to a familial factor.
6. Victims of domestic violence: copy of identity certificate of victim of domestic violence issued by the municipal, county, or city government, copy of protection order, or copy of the pertinent judgment.
7. Rehabilitated ex-convicts: copy of imprisonment certificate or other valid identity certificate.
8. Involuntarily unemployed persons: copy of document proving the involuntary unemployment issued by the group insurance applicant, or by the municipal, county, or city government, or copy of other valid documents proving the mentioned fact.
9. Other documents required by the Central Competent Authority.