Cancer Patients Not Classified as Poor Households: Are They Eligible for Monthly Social Allowances?

According to Article 5 of Decree 136/2013/ND-CP, the subjects eligible for monthly social support include:

- Children under 16 years old without a nurturer falling into one of the following cases:

+ Abandoned and not yet adopted;

+ Orphaned of both parents;

+ Orphaned of one parent with the other declared missing according to the law;

+ .....

- Persons aged 16 to 22 falling into one of the cases stipulated in Clause 1 of this Article who are attending general education, vocational training, professional intermediate school, college, or first-degree university.

- Children with HIV from poor households; people with HIV from poor households who are unable to work and without pension, monthly social insurance allowance, monthly preferential allowance for people with meritorious services, or other monthly allowances.

- Persons from poor households who do not have a spouse; spouses have passed away; spouses declared missing according to the law and raising children under 16 years old or raising children from 16 to 22 years old but those children are attending general education, vocational training, professional intermediate school, college, or first-degree university (hereinafter referred to as single poor person raising children).

- Elderly persons falling into one of the following cases:

+ Elderly persons from poor households without anyone obligated and entitled to support or with such persons, but those persons are receiving monthly social support policies;

+ Persons aged 80 and above not falling under Point a of this Clause without a pension, monthly social insurance allowance, or monthly social support;

+ Elderly persons from poor households without anyone obligated and entitled to support, unable to live in the community, eligible for admission to social protection facilities, social houses, but taken care of by someone in the community.

- Disabled children, disabled persons eligible for social support according to the legal provisions on disability.

Based on the above regulations and the information you provided, your mother, who has breast cancer and does not belong to a poor household, is not entitled to the monthly social support.

Sincerely!