Who is the person with meritorious services to the revolution in Vietnam?

Who is the person with meritorious services to the revolution in Vietnam? (Internet image)

1. Who is the person with meritorious services to the revolution in Vietnam?

People with meritorious services to the revolution include:

- People who were active in the revolution before January 1, 1945;

- People who were active in the revolution from January 1, 1945, to the day of the August revolution, 1945;

- Martyrs;

- Vietnamese heroic Mother;

- Heroes of the People's Armed Forces;

- Hero of Labor in the period of resistance;

- Invalids, including Class B invalids recognized before December 31, 1993; policy beneficiaries such as war invalids;

- Sick soldiers;

- Resistance activists infected with toxic chemicals;

- People who are active in the revolution, resistance war, defense of the Fatherland, or perform international obligations are imprisoned or exiled by the enemy;

- People who are active in the resistance war for national liberation, defense of the Fatherland, and international obligations;

- People with meritorious services to the revolution.

(Clause 1, Article 3 of the Ordinance on incentives for people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020)

2. The benefits for people with meritorious services to the revolution and relatives of people with meritorious services to the revolution in Vietnam

Depending on each subject, people with meritorious services to the revolution and relatives of people with meritorious services to the revolution are entitled to the following benefits:

- Monthly allowance, monthly allowance, one-time allowance;

- Other incentives include:

+ Health insurance;

+ Nursing to restore health;

+ Provide necessary aids, orthopedic tools, means, and equipment for rehabilitation as specified by orthopedic and functional rehabilitation establishments in the labor - war invalids and social sectors or from a hospital at the provincial level or higher;

+ Priority in enrollment and job creation;

+ Support to study up to university level at educational institutions under the national education system;

+ Support for housing improvement based on merits and circumstances of each person or when having housing difficulties;

+ Exemption or reduction of the land use levy when being allocated residential land by the State, changing the land use purpose to residential land, and recognizing the right to use residential land, when purchasing houses owned by the State;

+ Prioritizing allocation or lease of land, water surface, and sea surface; prioritizing forest protection and development contracts;

+ Preferential loans for production and business;

+ Tax exemption or reduction as prescribed by law.

(Article 5 of the Ordinance on incentives for people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020)

3. Principles of implementing policies and preferential regimes for people with meritorious services to the revolution and their relatives in Vietnam

- Taking care of the health, material, and spiritual lives of people with meritorious services to the revolution and the relatives of people with meritorious services to the revolution is the responsibility of the State and society. The State encourages organizations and individuals to pay attention to, help implement, and provide preferential regimes for people with meritorious services to the revolution.

- The preferential regime for people with meritorious services to the revolution and relatives of people with meritorious services to the revolution must be determined and adjusted to suit the country's socio-economic conditions in each period; ensure the standard of living of people with meritorious services to the revolution is equal to or higher than the average level of the residential community.

- People with meritorious services to the revolution of many subjects are entitled to subsidies and allowances of many subjects; for the service worker allowance and the preferential regime specified in Clause 2, Article 5 of the Ordinance on Incentives for People with Meritorious Services to the Revolution 2020, only the highest level of one preferential regime shall be enjoyed.

- If a person with meritorious services to the revolution, or relatives of people with meritorious services to the revolution specified in Clause 12, Article 16, and Clause 1, Article 31 of the Ordinance on incentives for people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020, die, the person or organization performing the funeral is entitled to a funeral allowance at the rate prescribed by the law on social insurance. In the case of many subjects, only one funeral allowance shall be enjoyed.

In case the subjects specified in this Clause are also subject to the funeral allowance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, they shall enjoy the funeral allowance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance; in case they are simultaneously entitled to the funeral regime guaranteed by the state budget according to the provisions of other legal documents, they shall enjoy a funeral regime at the highest level.

- If a person with meritorious services to the revolution dies and their relatives receive a monthly survivorship allowance according to the provisions of the Ordinance on Incentives for People with meritorious services to the Revolution 2020, the relatives of the person with meritorious services to the revolution are entitled to a monthly survivorship allowance as follows:

+ Relatives of two or more people with meritorious services to the revolution are entitled to a maximum of two monthly survivorship allowances, except for the case specified at Point a, Clause 3, Article 16 of the Ordinance on incentives for people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020;

+ Relatives of a martyr who are concurrently relatives of two or more people with meritorious services to the revolution are entitled to a monthly survivorship allowance of a martyr and a monthly survivorship allowance of a person with meritorious services to the revolution;

+ Relatives of two or more martyrs and concurrently related people with meritorious services to the revolution are entitled to a monthly survivorship allowance for relatives of martyrs as prescribed at Point a, Clause 3, Article 16 of the Ordinance on incentives for people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020;

+ Relatives of people with meritorious services to the revolution and those with meritorious services in two or more categories, shall be entitled to a monthly survivorship allowance for one of them;

+ Children of people with meritorious services to the revolution are at least 18 years old if they have received a monthly survivorship allowance while studying at a vocational education and training institution, a higher education institution, or are receiving a monthly survivorship allowance. If he/she quits school or is forced to drop out, he/she is not entitled to the monthly survivorship allowance.

- Relatives of people with meritorious services to the revolution who are entitled to an additional monthly survivorship allowance are entitled to a monthly maintenance survivorship allowance.

(Article 6 of the Ordinance on incentives for people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020)

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