Investigating responsibility in the fake war invalids problem in Nghe An

Nghe An must recover hundreds of billions of dong in wrongful benefits for war invalids

(Baonghean.vn) - Out of the total amount of nearly 120 billion VND that must be recovered from nearly 600 invalids, Nghe An authorities have so far only recovered more than 2.2 billion VND.

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However, according to Mr. Vu, if we analyze and dissect the contents, there is also the responsibility of local Party committees and authorities at all levels, and a number of related departments and branches in the province.

"Specifically, regarding the 569 cases of war invalids who did not receive benefits in accordance with regulations, the primary responsibility lies with military agencies at all levels and local authorities in reviewing and completing the application for confirmation of war invalids," said Mr. Vu.

Mr. Doan Hong Vu answered questions from delegates. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Mr. Doan Hong Vu said that the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs received the documents transferred from the military agency to pay the subsidy regime according to regulations. Now, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs inspected the documents at Military Region 4 and discovered errors in the documents and directed to handle them. The Department also advised the Provincial People's Committee to issue a handling plan, stopped the subsidy regime of the wrong beneficiaries from August 1, 2018 and directed agencies at all levels to recover the wrongly received amount and pay it to the State Budget according to regulations.

According to Mr. Vu, this situation is partly due to the low level of understanding of a part of the population and the sophistication of some subjects who have taken advantage of policy loopholes to falsely declare and falsify documents to take advantage of state policies.

In addition, according to the Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Nghe An, some local Party committees and authorities have not really paid attention to directing the implementation of policies and regimes for people with meritorious services, and some places still implement them according to the movement.

The work of reviewing subjects at some districts and communes at times and places has not followed the documents, procedures and instructions of the superiors; the review has not been strict; the steering committee has not participated fully; there have been cases of lack of caution in the review; the inspection work has not been carried out regularly or organized in a formal manner, so violations in the process of organizing and implementing policies have not been detected and handled promptly. The management of subjects has not been strict; the management, storage and exploitation of records are still lacking, causing difficulties in implementing policies.

After three inspections, Nghe An discovered more than 800 cases of war invalids receiving policies that were not in accordance with regulations. Photo: Tien Hung

Regarding these hundreds of fake war invalids, Mr. Vu said that the solution in the coming time is to do a good job of propaganda so that the subjects realize that the errors in the records that the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs concluded that the regime was suspended were correct. At the same time, do a good job of receiving complaints; Actively coordinate with local authorities at all levels to recover the amount of money received incorrectly; Restore subsidies to subjects who have supplemented their records and legal documents based on the unified direction between the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Military Region 4 Command....

Also at the question-and-answer session, regarding the issue of fake war invalids, delegate Nguyen Thi Lan said that after the inspection conclusion, some war invalids had supplemented their records and had their benefits restored. "So, what is the Department's responsibility in this matter?" - Ms. Lan said.

Answering this question, Mr. Doan Hong Vu said that after 3 inspections, from 2014 to now, Nghe An province discovered more than 800 cases of fake war invalids with wrongly received money, forcing them to recover up to hundreds of billions of dong. However, 64 cases were later restored to the regime because their records were supplemented.

“Most of the fake wounded soldiers cases were discovered to have falsified records or were not on the original list of wounded soldiers kept at the unit. Especially for fake records, we had to send thousands of records to the Central Government for appraisal, which took many years to get results, and it was impossible to detect with the naked eye because it was done very sophisticatedly. For cases where the records were complete, we immediately restored the regime as well as honor,” said Mr. Vu.