Budget for basic training for rural workers and unemployed workers in Vietnam

According to Circular No. 152/2016/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam, requirements for grant of training subsidy include: people who are in the working age (15-55 years of age for female and 15-60 years of age for male); trainees have feasible self-employment plans; rural workers; the disabled; unemployed workers; people receiving training subsidy; people whose agricultural land is withdrawn.

Specifically, training subsidies are specified as follows:

- Disabled persons stipulated in the Law on Persons with Disability and its guidance: maximum 06 million dong/person/course;

- Poor ethnics, poor households of severely-disadvantaged communes under regulations by the Prime Minister: maximum 04 million dong/person/course;

- Ethnics, beneficiaries of preferential policies for persons who contributed to the national revolution under the Ordinance on preferential policies for persons who contributed to the national revolution, those whose agricultural or commercial land is withdrawn and poor households by the Prime Minister as prescribed in the Decision No. 63/2015/QĐ-TTg, fishermen and unemployed women: maximum 03 million dong/person/course;

- For near poor households stipulated by the Prime Minister: maximum 2.5 million dong/person/course;

- For women and rural workers other than those specified in point a, b, c and d of this clause: maximum 02 million dong/person/course;

- For those who concurrently fall into more than one category in point a, b, c, d and dd of this clause, the highest subsidy shall apply;

According to Circular No. 152/2016/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam, meal and travel subsidies shall be provided for beneficiaries of preferential policies for those who contributed to the national revolution, persons with disabilities, ethnics, poor or near poor persons and those whose agricultural or commercial land is withdrawn and unemployed women taking basic training and under-03-month training courses. The meal subsidy is 30,000 dong/person/actual school day. The travel subsidy is 200,000 dong/person/course if the training location is at least 15 km distant from the residence.

For the disabled and residents of disadvantaged areas or severely disadvantaged areas under regulations by the Prime Minister: 300,000 dong/person/course if the training location is at least 5 km distant from the residence.

Each trainee shall be entitled to receive training subsidy from the State budget only once. Those who had been granted a training subsidy under other State's regulations shall not be offered any additional training subsidy under this Circular.

Circular No. 152/2016/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam came into force from December 04, 2016.

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