Low-wage civil servants are subsidized by the government.

On March 30, the Prime Minister signed a decision to provide hardship allowances to cadres, civil servants, public employees, armed forces, low-wage pensioners, beneficiaries of preferential allowances for meritorious people and poor households with difficult lives..

According to Decision No. 471/QD-TTg, those with a salary coefficient (position salary or salary according to current rank or grade) of 3.00 or less are entitled to a subsidy of VND 250,000/person.

Pensioners and low-level social insurance beneficiaries with difficult living conditions are entitled to hardship allowances. Those with pensions and social insurance benefits of 2.2 million VND/month or less are entitled to a subsidy of 250,000 VND/person.

Officials and civil servants with low salaries will receive additional benefits.
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People with revolutionary contributions who receive regular allowances (excluding those receiving death benefits) receive a subsidy of VND 250,000/person.

Recipients of death benefits (including those receiving social insurance death benefits and death benefits for meritorious people) receive 100,000 VND/person.

Poor households according to the new poverty standards according to Decision No. 09/2011/QD-TTg dated January 30, 2011 of the Prime Minister are entitled to 250,000 VND/household.

According to this Decision, state-owned enterprises shall provide hardship allowances to employees from the enterprises' legal financial funds.

The decision clearly states that non-state enterprises are encouraged to use legal financial funds to support workers to have more conditions to improve their lives.

Enterprises that support employees whose legal funds are not enough can account for this in the enterprise's production and business costs, and the Ministry of Finance will provide specific instructions.

According to VnMedia