Vice Chairman of Commune People's Council 'declared dead' mother to take advantage of subsidy money

According to the authorities, in 2011, the commune had a campaign to prepare documents for the elderly over 80 years old to receive benefits. Mr. He's biological mother is 72 years old, but as a commune team leader and policy officer, he changed his mother's birth year in the household registration from 1939 to 1930, declaring her age as 81.

After completing the application, Mr. He's mother received social protection benefits from January 2011 to March 2017, with an amount of 270,000 VND/month. Mr. He personally took his mother's book to receive the money on her behalf during this time. The incident was discovered by a post office employee when the social protection benefits were transferred to the post office for payment in 2017.

Thach Dien commune headquarters, where Mr. He is working. Photo: D.H

Fearing that he would be charged back the more than 14 million VND in subsidies he had received over the past 6 years, Mr. He, who was then the Vice Chairman of the Commune People's Council, directed the accountant to make a death certificate for his mother and requested that she stop paying the support allowance from April 2017.

According to the Chairman of Thach Dien Commune, what Mr. He did was "thoughtless" and "a lesson for local officials". The People's Committee of Thach Ha District later decided to collect the subsidy amount of more than 14 million VND.

The district is expanding its investigation into the roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups for the violations in this incident.

According to VNE