Support VND 450.000 each month for early childhood education teachers in charge of improvement of Vietnamese proficiency of ethnic minority children

Specifically, according to Article 9 of Decree No. 105/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, persons eligible for the benefit for early childhood education teachers in charge of multi-grade classes or improvement of Vietnamese proficiency of ethnic minority children are early childhood education teachers teaching at branches of public preschool institutions located in communes with exceptional socio-economic difficulties, in coastal communes with exceptional difficulties, on islands and in communes in disadvantaged areas stipulated by the Prime Minister who meet one of the following conditions:

- Directly teach 02 sessions/day in a multi-grade junior kindergarten class or senior kindergarten class with students of at least 2 age groups.

- Directly teach for the purpose of Vietnamese proficiency improvement in a multi-grade junior kindergarten class or senior kindergarten class with ethnic minority students.

Benefit:

- A teacher meeting the conditions stated above is entitled to VND 450.000 each month (four hundred fifty thousand dong each month). The teacher may receive this amount for every month in which they teach but no more than 9 months/academic year.

- This amount shall be added to the teacher’s monthly salary and not be included in the basis for calculation of social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance.

Implementing method:

- At the time of preparation of state budget estimate every year, each preschool institution shall draw up a list of teachers eligible for the benefit (using Form No. 04 in Appendix enclosed with Decree No. 105/2020/NĐ-CP) and send it to the bureau of education and training, which shall send a consolidated list to the finance authority at the same level for appraisal, and propose it to the body with competence in funding approval according to regulations of the Law on State Budget of Vietnam.

- For preschool institutions affiliated to a department of education and training or another regulatory body, the head of each institution shall submit the list of eligible teachers to the institution’s supervisory body and to the bureau of education and training of the district where the institution is located for monitoring and consolidation purposes.

View more details at the Decree No. 105/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from November 01, 2020.

Le Vy

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