Below is an important provision stipulated in Decree 58/2019/ND-CP of the Government of Vietnam, which prescribes the allowances and subsidies for individuals with meritorious service.
The lump-sum preferential allowance rates for individuals with meritorious service in Vietnam are stipulated in Appendix I issued along with Decree 58/2019/ND-CP. To be specific:
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Unit: thousand VND
No. | Subject of meritorious services | Allowance level |
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1 | - Lump-sum allowance upon martyr's death notification | 20 times the base level |
- Support for death notification expenses | 1,000 | |
2 | - Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, Labor Heroes during the resistance who died before January 01, 1995 | 20 times the base level |
- Mothers of the Heroes of Vietnam, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, Labor Heroes during the resistance awarded posthumously | 20 times the base level | |
3 | People injured with a reduction in work capacity from 5%-20%: | |
- Reduction in work capacity from 5% - 10% | 4 times the base level | |
- Reduction in work capacity from 11% - 15% | 6 times the base level | |
- Reduction in work capacity from 16% - 20% | 8 times the base level | |
4 | Allowance for relatives of revolutionaries or resistants who were imprisoned or exiled by the enemy and died without receiving the preferential policies for revolutionaries or resistants imprisoned or exiled by the enemy | 1.5 times the base level |
5 | Revolutionaries in resistance (Allowance calculated based on years of service) |
120/1 year of service |
6 | People who helped the revolution awarded the Resistance Medal and people in families that helped the revolution awarded the Resistance Medal | 1,000 |
7 | Allowance for relatives of resistance activists awarded the Medal, who died before January 01, 1995 | 1,000 |
8 | Health insurance | According to the law on health insurance |
9 | Funeral expenses | According to the law on social insurance |
Note: The base level to determine the preferential allowance levels for people with meritorious services to the revolution in Vietnam as stipulated in Decree 58/2019/ND-CP is VND 1,624,000, applicable from July 01, 2019.
Additionally, Decree 58 also stipulates the injury allowance levels for war invalids and those entitled to policies like invalids as provided in Appendix II; the injury allowance levels for type B invalids as stipulated in Appendix III.
More details can be found in Decree 58/2019/ND-CP, effective from August 15, 2019, replacing Decree 99/2018/ND-CP.
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