Vietnam: Rural women are supported up to VND 2 million/basic training course

Requirements for grant of training subsidy

According to Circular No. 152/2016/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam, requirements for grant of training subsidy are as follows:

People who are in the working age (15-55 years of age for female and 15-60 years of age for male) would like to take vocational training courses; in case of apprenticeship, apprentices shall be at least 14 years old. The illiterate may join suitable training courses by mentoring which are suitable with their health status. Trainees have feasible self-employment plans certified by the People’s Committee of the commune or employer or enter into exclusivity agreements with other parties.

For rural workers: Workers who took up permanent residence in communes, wards or town directly work in agriculture or those who have their agricultural land withdrawn.

For the disabled: A disability certificate or monthly allowance record is required.

For unemployed workers:

- For those working under employment contracts, one of the following documents is required: a resignation/layoff decision, a written notice of contract termination; expired /finished employment contract;

- For those working without employment contracts: A certificate of employment issued by the employer is required;

- For self-employed workers: A business registration certificate which remains valid or a certificate issued by the People’s Committees of the commune in case of absence of the business registration certificate is required.

- For those receiving training subsidy: in addition to the documents mentioned in clause 5 hereof, a certificate of completion of the training course is required.

- For those whose agricultural land is withdrawn: A decision on withdrawal of land in the period of subsidy as stipulated in Article 4 of Decision No. 63/2015/QĐ-TTg dated December 10, 2015 by the Prime Minister on assistance policies on vocational training and job search for workers whose land is withdrawn (hereinafter referred to as “Decision No. 63/2015/QĐ-TTg”).

It shall be funded from the central and local government budgets, enterprises, organizations and individuals and other lawful sources of finance.

People with disabilities are supported up to VND 06 million

Regarding forms of subsidies, disabled persons stipulated in the Law on Persons with Disability and its guidance shall receive a maximum subsidy of 06 million dong/person/course.

Poor ethnics, poor households of severely-disadvantaged communes under regulations by the Prime Minister shall receive a maximum subsidy of 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/QD-TTg, fishermen and unemployed women shall  receive a maximum subsidy of 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;

In addition to subjects specified above, People’s Committees of provinces should arrange and mobilize lawful source of funds for other entities ( including members of poor families according to poverty line of the province) who desire to take such training courses according to the local government budget.

Besides, Circular No. 152/2016/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam also stipulates subjects entitled to meal and travel subsidies, including: 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.

Amount of meal subsidy: 30,000 dong/person/actual school day. Amount of travel subsidy: 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.

In addition to these above-mentioned meal and travel subsidies, regulatory authorities and training facilities, according to the ability and reality, should mobilize other lawful source of funds for trainees' meals and travel during the training courses.

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. In case a worker who was granted a training subsidy but becomes unemployed due to objective factors, the People’s Committee of the province shall consider giving an additional training subsidy to no more than 03 persons at a time under provisions hereof.

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

Source: Electronic Finance

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