Around 2 million households with more than 6 million people in HCM City need assistance. (Photo: VNA)Nguyen Thi Le, Chairwoman of the municipal People’sCouncil, said on September 23 that the package targets more than 7.3 millionpeople of the five groups, regardless of their permanent or temporary residencein the city.
People eligible for the support are members of poor and near-poor householdsand social policy beneficiaries who are in difficult circumstances; thoserendered jobless by the pandemic and their dependents; parents, spouses andchildren of pensioners, people receiving social allowances due to work capacityloss and social insurance participants who were paid by businesses in Augustbut need financial assistance; and needy migrant workers living in the city. Each of them willreceive 1 million VND.
Le affirmed that the package will be rolled outpublicly and transparently, with simple procedures.
According to the municipal People’s Committee,around 2 million households with more than 6 million people in the country’s biggest economic centre needassistance, of whom nearly 1 million have losttheir jobs.
To ensure equality in the work, residential areaswill set up working groups to review the list of beneficiaries./.
VNA
