Do Vietnam border guards who work in the border for 5 years non-consecutively receive a long-term work allowance?

Do Vietnam border guards who work in the border for 5 years non-consecutively receive a long-term work allowance?

Pursuant to Article 4 of Decree 106/2021/NĐ-CP stipulating preferential policies and special regimes for Vietnam border guards as follows:

1. Officers, professional soldiers, workers and public employees of the Border Guard Force who have been on duty to protect the border and islands for at least 5 years, if they have the need to move their families to settle and live permanently in the border and island areas, will be prioritized by local authorities to allocate residential land according to the provisions of land law; support for accommodation, housing for families, employment for the spouses of officers, professional soldiers, civilian employees of the Border Guard Force, and enjoy other preferential policies and regimes according to regulations.

2. Border guards, in addition to enjoying the salary, allowance, and other policies in the Army, also enjoy the allowance for the responsibility of protecting the border and islands during the time they are directly engaged in the tasks of managing and protecting the border and islands.

3. Officers, professional soldiers, workers and public employees of the Border Guard Force who have continuously worked for at least 5 years in the border area, islands, and archipelagos, will be paid a monthly allowance for long-term service in the border and islands. In cases where the allowance for long-term service in the border and islands is stipulated in multiple documents, only the highest level of the regime and policy will apply.

4. Officers and professional soldiers of the Border Guard Force when serving as reinforcement officers in border communes with particularly difficult economic and social conditions, will be paid an additional monthly allowance for concurrent duties and an annual health care allowance increase according to the law.

According to the above regulations, you must have a continuous work period of at least 5 years in the border area, islands, and archipelagos to be eligible for a long-term service allowance in the border and islands. In your case, you have not worked for a continuous period of 5 years, so you are not eligible for this allowance.

Do Vietnam border guards who work in the border for 5 years non-consecutively receive a long-term work allowance? - Source: Internet

What are the powers of Vietnam border guards?

Pursuant to Article 15 of the Law on Vietnam Border Guard in 2020 stipulating the powers of Vietnam border guards as follows:

1. To deploy, use forces, equipment, and technical equipment to carry out missions; apply management and protection forms and measures of the national border according to the provisions of Articles 19 and 20 of this Law.

2. To patrol, inspect, control, manage, and protect the national border, the system of national border markers, marking objects, signs of the border line, border works, and border gates; issue, amend, supplement, and revoke visas and other documents in the field of management and protection of the national border; inspection and control of vehicles with signs of violating the law, handling vehicles violating the law in the border area, border gates according to the provisions of the law.

3. To combat, prevent, investigate, and handle violations of the law in the border area, border gates according to the provisions of the law.

4. To restrict or temporarily suspend activities in the border strip, border area, cross-border at border gates, and open gates according to the provisions of Article 11 of this Law.

5. To use weapons, explosives, and auxiliary tools according to the provisions of Article 17 of this Law.

6. To mobilize people, ships, vehicles, and civilian technical equipment according to the provisions of Article 18 of this Law.

7. To directly pursue, arrest people, and vehicles violating the law from the border into the interior; cooperate with forces to search for and arrest people who have committed acts of violating the law to escape into the interior; pursue, arrest people, and vehicles violating the law escaping from within the internal waters, the territorial sea of Vietnam to outside the territorial sea of Vietnam according to the provisions of Vietnamese law and international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member.

8. To cooperate and coordinate with the functional forces of the neighboring countries, other countries, and international organizations in managing, protecting the national border, border gates, preventing and combating crime, and violations of the law according to the provisions of Vietnamese law and international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member.

Above are the powers of Vietnam border guards.

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