More care for social beneficiariers
Ha Noi, Mar. 30 (VNA) -- The Viet Nam Government and people give better care to those who rendered great service to the nation, war invalids and fallen combatants' families.
The assessment was made at a conference in Ha Noi on Mar. 30 to review the implemention of the Government policy giving priority to those who served the nation with distinction between 1994-2000.
The Government provides monthly allowances to heroic Vietnamese mothers and war invalids. Children of fallen combatants studying at public educational establishments are also given funding to cover an essential part of their monthly expenditures.
In addition, the Government offers preferential treatment for health care, education and training, house rent and land tax and credit provision, to social beneficiaries.
Activities to care for social beneficiaries have been socialized with the launching of five major movements: Building gift houses, establishing funds for paying debts of gratitude, granting savings bank-accounts, and caring for fallen combatants' helpless parents and children.
Almost 147,000 gift houses worth more than VND 865 billion and 404,300 saving bank-accounts worth more than VND 147 billion were presented to social beneficiaries in recent years.
Ministries and localities across the country have established funds for paying debts of gratitude, which yearly mobilize about VND 100 billion.
At present, all heroic Vietnamese mothers receive good care while 95 percent of seriously affected war invalids, who are treated at home, enjoy stable living standards.
A recent survey showed that 85 percent of social beneficiaries' families obtain living standards higher than the local average level.--VNA
