8 subjects entitled to monthly social allowances: Who are they?

No.

Social protection beneficiaries are entitled to monthly social allowances

Support level

1

Children under 16 years old having no nurture source subject to one of the cases prescribed:

• Being abandoned and not yet adopted;
• Being an orphan who has lost both parents;
• Being an orphan, whose mother or father has died, and the remaining parent is missing;
• Being an orphan whose mother or father has died, and the remaining parent is receiving the care and nurture benefits at social protection establishments or social houses;
• Being an orphan whose mother or father has died, and the remaining parent is serving prison term in jail or is exercising the decision on handling of administrative violation at reformatories, compulsory educational establishments, and compulsory detoxification establishments;
• Both parents are missing as prescribed by the law provisions;
• Both parents are receiving the care and nurture benefits at social protection establishments or social houses,
• Both parents are serving the prison term in jail or are exercising the decisions on handling administrative violations at reformatories, compulsory educational establishments, and compulsory detoxification establishments;
• The mother or father is missing and the remaining parent is receiving the care and nurture benefits at the social protection establishments or social houses;
• The mother or father is missing, and the remaining parent is serving a prison term in jail or is exercising the decision on handling administrative violations at reformatories, compulsory educational establishments, and compulsory detoxification establishments;
• The mother or father is receiving the care and nurture benefits at the social protection establishments or social houses, and the remaining is serving a prison term in jail or is exercising the decision on handling of administrative violation at the reformatories, compulsory educational establishments, and compulsory detoxification establishments;

- For those under 4 years old; VND 900,000/month

- For those who are full 4 years old or older: VND 540,000/month

2

Persons in case 01 of this Article who are enjoying monthly social allowance, but reach full 16 years of age and are studying in high schools, vocational schools, professional secondary schools, colleges, or universities of the first degree, shall continue to enjoy social assistance policies until the end of their education, but not more than the age of 22.

VND 540,000/month

3

Children infected with HIV in poor households.

- For those who are under 4 years old VND 900,000/month

- for those who are between full 4 years old and under 16 years old: VND 720,000.

4

Poor people who are raising children: Persons belong to poor or near-poor households who are not married; those who are married but the wife or husband has died or is missing and they are raising children under 16 years old or children between 16 and 22 years old who are in high schools, vocational schools, professional secondary schools, colleges or universities of first degree.

Raising only one child: VND 360,000/month

5

The elderly persons belong to poor households that do not have any person to serve them or have such persons but they are receiving monthly social allowances.

+ From 60 - 80 years old: VND 540,000/month

- For those who are full 80 years old or older: VND 720,000/month

The elderly persons from full 75 to 80 years old belong to poor or near-poor households, living in communes and villages in ethnic minority areas and mountainous areas with special difficulties;

The elderly persons from full 80 years old or older, who have no monthly pension, social insurance allowance, or social allowance;

VND 360,000/month
 

The elderly persons belong to poor households who do not have any person to serve them; have no condition to live in the community, and meet the conditions to be admitted to the social protection establishments or social houses but there are other persons who wish to take care of them in community.

VND 1.8 million

6

Persons with severe disabilities or extremely severe disabilities.

Persons with extremely severe disabilities: VND 720,000/month

- For children with extremely severe disabilities or elderly persons with extremely severe disabilities; VND 900,000/month

- Persons with severe disabilities: VND 540,000/month

- Coefficient 2.0 for children with severe disabilities or elderly persons with severe disabilities.

7

Children under 3 years old belonging to poor or near-poor households other than those specified in cases 1, 3, and 6 living in communes and villages in ethnic minority areas and mountainous areas with special difficulties.

VND 540,000/month

8

Persons infected with HIV/AIDS belong to poor households without a stable monthly income source such as salary, wages, pension, social insurance allowance, or monthly social allowance.

VND 540,000/month