Ministry touts the success of vouchers By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter The government’s Triple Stimulus Vouchers helped boost Taiwan’s retail sector last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday as it unveiled the final tally for the program. The ministry’s statistics showed that 23.32 million people in Taiwan, or 99 percent of the population, participated in the program, claiming either paper or digital vouchers. The ministry said that 99.6 percent of the vouchers, or NT$64.28 billion (US$2.25 billion), were redeemed by vendors. Premier Su Tseng-chang holds outsized samples of the government’s Triple Stimulus Vouchers at a news conference in Taipei on June 2 last year.