A Draft Decree on Increasing the Standard of Social Assistance Effective from July 1, 2024: Where to View the Draft Decree?
Draft Decree on Increasing Social Assistance Standard Effective from July 1, 2024? Where to View the Draft Decree?
The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has drafted a Decree to adjust the standard level of social assistance effective from July 1, 2024.
Implementing Resolution 88/NQ-CP in 2023 of the Government of Vietnam on the regular online meeting with localities in May 2023, entrusting the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to research and propose amendments to Decree 20/2021/ND-CP regulating social assistance policies for social protection beneficiaries and the conclusion of the Politburo meeting on June 19, 2024, regarding salary policy reform, adjustment of pensions, social insurance allowances, preferential allowances for people with meritorious services, and social allowances.
Specifically, the standard social assistance level applied from July 1, 2024, will be 500,000 VND/month (an increase of 38.9% compared to the standard social assistance level stipulated in clause 2, Article 4 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP).
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Which Social Protection Beneficiaries Receive Monthly Social Allowances?
Based on Article 5 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP, the social protection beneficiaries who receive monthly social allowances include:
(1) Children under 16 years old without caregivers in one of the following cases:
- Abandoned without anyone adopting them;- Orphaned of both parents;- Orphaned of one parent and the other is declared missing by law;- Orphaned of one parent and the other is receiving care and upbringing at social assistance centers, social houses;- Orphaned of one parent and the other is serving a prison sentence in a detention center or serving an administrative penalty at a reform school, compulsory education center, or compulsory detoxification center;- Both parents are declared missing by law;- Both parents are receiving care and upbringing at social assistance centers, social houses;- Both parents are serving a prison sentence in a detention center or serving an administrative penalty at a reform school, compulsory education center, or compulsory detoxification center;- One parent is declared missing by law and the other is receiving care and upbringing at social assistance centers, social houses;- One parent is declared missing by law and the other is serving a prison sentence in a detention center or serving an administrative penalty at a reform school, compulsory education center, or compulsory detoxification center;- One parent is receiving care and upbringing at social assistance centers and the other is serving a prison sentence in a detention center or serving an administrative penalty at a reform school, compulsory education center, or compulsory detoxification center.
(2) Persons under the provisions of clause 1, Article 5 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP receiving monthly social allowances who turn 16 but are still in general education, vocational training, secondary professional education, college, or first-degree university will continue to receive social assistance policies until completion of education, but not exceeding 22 years old.
(3) HIV/AIDS infected children from poor households.
(4) Persons from poor or near-poor households who are unmarried; widower or widow whose spouse has died or is missing by law while raising a child under 16 years old or raising a child 16 to 22 years old who is in general education, vocational training, secondary professional education, college, or first-degree university as specified in clause 2, Article 5 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP (hereinafter referred to as poor single parents raising children).
(5) Elderly persons in one of the following cases:
- Elderly from poor households without anyone liable and entitled to maintenance or whose entitled person is receiving monthly social allowance;- Elderly aged 75 to 80 from poor or near-poor households not specified in point a of this clause, living in particularly difficult socio-economic areas in ethnic minority and mountainous regions;- Persons aged 80 and above not specified in point a of this clause who do not receive a pension, social insurance allowance, or monthly social allowance;- Elderly from poor households without anyone liable and entitled to maintenance, unable to live in the community, qualifying for social assistance centers but are taken care of by someone in the community.
(6) Severely disabled persons and particularly severely disabled persons as per the law on disabled persons.
(7) Children under 3 years old from poor or near-poor households not specified in clauses 1, 3, and 6, Article 5 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP living in particularly difficult socio-economic areas in ethnic minority and mountainous regions.
(8) HIV/AIDS infected persons from poor households without a stable monthly income such as salary, wage, pension, social insurance allowance, and monthly social allowance.
What is the Current Standard Social Assistance Level?
Based on clause 2, Article 4 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP, the standard social assistance level is stipulated as follows:
Standard Social Assistance Level
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2. The standard social assistance level effective from July 1, 2021, is 360,000 VND/month.
Thus, the current standard social assistance level is 360,000 VND/month.
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