Proposal to subsidize 1 million VND/month for youth volunteers

The Ministry of Justice is reviewing the Draft Decree adjusting the monthly allowance regime for youth volunteers who completed their duties in the resistance war and grassroots youth volunteers in the South who participated in the resistance war from 1965 to 1975. The draft was developed by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

In the draft, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed to stipulate the monthly subsidy level equal to twice the standard social assistance level instead of stipulating it as a specific amount of money as before.

At the same time, adjust monthly allowances for youth volunteers according to the adjustment of social assistance standards.

The monthly allowance for youth volunteers will be adjusted from VND540,000/month to VND1 million/person/month (equal to twice the standard social assistance level) from the local budget.

This is to ensure that subsidies for youth volunteers are automatically and promptly adjusted whenever the Government adjusts the social assistance standard without having to issue a separate decree on adjusting subsidies for youth volunteers.

Thus, the monthly allowance for youth volunteers will be adjusted from 540,000 VND/month to 1 million VND/person/month (equal to 2 times the standard social assistance level) from the local budget.

Accordingly, each volunteer will receive an additional 460,000 VND/person/month. The monthly allowance for volunteers will be received from December 1.

The draft of the Ministry of Interior clearly states that two groups of youth volunteers are entitled to this policy.

Including youth volunteers who have completed their missions in the resistance war and are receiving monthly allowances according to Decision 40/2011 of the Prime Minister regulating the regime for youth volunteers who have completed their missions in the resistance war.

Youth volunteers at the grassroots level in the South who participated in the resistance war from 1965 to 1975 are receiving monthly allowances according to Decree 112/2017 regulating the regime and policies for youth volunteers at the grassroots level in the South who participated in the resistance war from 1965 to 1975.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Home Affairs, as of April 1, the total number of youth volunteers receiving monthly allowances was 3,277 people (of which, the number receiving allowances according to Decision 40/2011 was 3,248 people; the number receiving allowances according to Decree 112/2017 was 29 people).

Regarding funding, after adjusting monthly allowances, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the total additional funding for 1 month is more than 1.5 billion VND. The additional funding for 1 year is nearly 18.9 billion VND.

If we calculate the average of 34 provinces and cities today, each province only increases by more than 44 million VND/month and about 530 million VND/year. Thus, the Ministry of Home Affairs clearly stated that the resources from local budgets have not increased significantly compared to before the adjustment.

The Ministry of Home Affairs also emphasized that in the past, monthly allowances for youth volunteers have not been adjusted in time with the adjustment of the social assistance standard (the allowance level from 2016 to present has remained unchanged at 540,000 VND).

During the same period, the basic salary at January 1, 2016 was 1.15 million VND, now adjusted to 2.34 million VND (more than 2 times increase).

The standard level of preferential allowance for meritorious people as of January 1, 2016 was VND 1,318 million (Decree No. 20/2015), now increased to VND 2,789 million according to Decree 77/2024 (more than 2 times increase).

With the current low monthly allowance, it is necessary to adjust and increase the allowance level for the two groups of youth volunteers above.

Contribute to ensuring life and reducing difficulties for the youth volunteer force, those who devoted their youth to the two resistance wars of the Fatherland, now old, weak, and lonely, with no one to rely on.

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