6 categories of people receive monthly social assistance.

(Baonghean) - Question: I have two grandchildren (6 and 11 years old) who are motherless, and their father is serving a sentence for an administrative violation at a reformatory. Are they eligible for monthly social assistance, and under what circumstances are they entitled to social assistance?

(Nguyen Thi Lan - Nam Lien, Nam Dan)

Reply:According to Decree No. 136/2013/ND-CP regulating social assistance policies for social protection beneficiaries, Article 5, Chapter 2 lists six categories of beneficiaries entitled to monthly social allowances, including:

1. Children under 16 years of age without a source of support who fall into one of the following categories: Abandoned and not yet adopted; Orphaned of both parents; Orphaned of one parent and the other parent is missing according to the law; Orphaned of one parent and the other parent is receiving care and support at a social welfare institution or social housing facility; Orphaned of one parent and the other parent is serving a prison sentence in a correctional facility or is serving a decision on administrative violations at a reformatory, compulsory education facility, or compulsory drug rehabilitation facility; Both parents are missing according to the law; Both parents are receiving care and support at a social welfare institution or social housing facility; Both parents are serving prison sentences in a correctional facility or are serving a decision on administrative violations at a reformatory, compulsory education facility, or compulsory drug rehabilitation facility; One parent is missing according to the law, and the other parent is receiving care and support at a social welfare institution or social housing facility; one parent is missing according to the law, and the other parent is serving a prison sentence in a correctional facility or is serving a decision on administrative violations at a reformatory, compulsory education facility, or compulsory drug rehabilitation center; one parent is receiving care and support at a social welfare institution or social housing facility, and the other parent is serving a prison sentence in a correctional facility or is serving a decision on administrative violations at a reformatory, compulsory education facility, or compulsory drug rehabilitation center.

2. Individuals aged 16 to 22 who fall under one of the categories specified in Clause 1 of this Article and are currently studying in high school, vocational school, specialized secondary school, college, or university for their first degree.

3. Children infected with HIV from poor households; people infected with HIV from poor households who are unable to work and do not receive a pension, monthly social insurance benefits, monthly preferential allowances for meritorious individuals, or other monthly allowances.

4. Individuals belonging to poor households who are unmarried; whose spouse has died; whose spouse is missing according to the law and who are raising children under 16 years old or raising children aged 16 to 22 who are attending high school, vocational school, professional secondary school, college, or university for their first degree (hereinafter collectively referred to as poor single parents raising children).

5. Elderly people who fall into one of the following categories: Elderly people from poor households who have no one obligated to provide care and support, or who have someone obligated to provide care and support but that person is already receiving a monthly social assistance allowance; People aged 80 years and older who do not fall under the provisions of Point a of this Clause and do not receive a pension, monthly social insurance allowance, or monthly social assistance allowance; Elderly people from poor households who have no one obligated to provide care and support, who do not have the conditions to live in the community, are eligible for admission to social welfare facilities or social housing, but have someone to care for them in the community.

6. Children with disabilities and people with disabilities who are eligible for social assistance as prescribed by the law on people with disabilities.

Therefore, your niece, being under 16 years old, falls under the category of those without a source of support and is therefore entitled to monthly social assistance.

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