6 subjects receive monthly social assistance

(Baonghean) - Question: I have 2 grandchildren (6 and 11 years old) whose mother is orphaned, and whose father is serving an administrative penalty decision at a reformatory school. Are they entitled to monthly social allowances and in what cases are they entitled to social allowances?

(Nguyen Thi Lan - Nam Lien, Nam Dan)

Reply:According to Decree No. 136/2013/ND-CP regulating social assistance policies for social protection beneficiaries, in Article 5, Chapter 2, there are 6 beneficiaries of monthly social allowances, including:

1. Children under 16 years old without a source of support are in one of the following cases: Abandoned without anyone to adopt them; Orphans of both parents; Orphans of one parent and the other parent is missing according to the provisions of law; Orphans of one parent and the other parent is receiving care and support at a social protection facility or social house; Orphans of one parent and the other parent is serving a prison sentence in a prison or is serving a decision to handle administrative violations at a reformatory school, compulsory education facility, or compulsory drug rehabilitation facility; Both parents are missing according to the provisions of law; Both parents are receiving care and support at a social protection facility or social house; Both parents are serving a prison sentence in a prison or are serving a decision to handle administrative violations at a reformatory school, compulsory education facility, or compulsory drug rehabilitation facility; The father or mother is missing according to the provisions of law and the other person is receiving care and nurturing benefits at a social protection facility or social house; The father or mother is missing according to the provisions of law and the other person is serving a prison sentence in a prison or is serving a decision on handling administrative violations at a reformatory school, compulsory education facility, or compulsory drug rehabilitation facility; The father or mother is receiving care and nurturing benefits at a social protection facility or social house and the other person is serving a prison sentence in a prison or is serving a decision on handling administrative violations at a reformatory school, compulsory education facility, or compulsory drug rehabilitation facility.

2. Persons from 16 to 22 years old who fall into one of the cases specified in Clause 1 of this Article and are studying in high school, vocational school, professional secondary school, college, or first-degree university.

3. HIV-infected children from poor households; HIV-infected people from poor households who are no longer able to work and do not have pensions, monthly social insurance benefits, monthly preferential benefits for meritorious people, or other monthly benefits.

4. People in poor households who have no husband or wife; whose husband or wife has died; whose husband or wife is missing according to the law and are raising children under 16 years old or are raising children from 16 to 22 years old but the children are studying in high school, vocational school, professional secondary school, college, or university with a first degree (hereinafter referred to as poor single people raising children).

5. Elderly people in one of the following cases: Elderly people in poor households who do not have anyone with the obligation and right to support them or have someone with the obligation and right to support them but this person is receiving monthly social allowance; People aged 80 years or older who are not subject to the provisions of Point a of this Clause but do not have a pension, monthly social insurance allowance, or monthly social allowance; Elderly people in poor households who do not have anyone with the obligation and right to support them, do not have conditions to live in the community, are eligible to be admitted to a social protection facility or social house but have someone to take care of them in the community.

6. Disabled children and disabled people are eligible for social benefits according to the provisions of the law on disabled people.

Thus, your nephew under 16 years old is in a situation where he has no source of support and is entitled to monthly social benefits.

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