Taipei mayor and Puma Shen clash over postpartum subsidies

By Ho Yu-hua, Tung Kuang-i and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writers Add TT as Preferred Source Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party Legislator and mayoral candidate Puma Shen (沈伯洋) yesterday clashed over competing subsidies to help expectant mothers. Chiang announced his policies at a news conference in Taipei yesterday, saying the measures to provide financial assistance to new or expectant mothers would go into effect in stages over the next few months. Taipei would provide mothers with a NT$30,000 childbirth subsidy for each newborn, without income or wealth-based restrictions, starting next month, he said. Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an announces a postpartum meal allowance program at the Wenshan Parent-Chil