Rice support is provided for disadvantaged people in Thuan Nam district, the south central province of Ninh Thuan (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – More vulnerable groups have been supported in2018, benefitting from the Party and Sate’s preferential policies.
According to statistics of the Ministry ofLabour, Invalids and Social Affairs, 1.3 million people nationwide receivedregular social allowances and 11.8 million others were entitled to healthinsurance in the year.
More than 59,500 national revolutionarycontributors and their family members received education and training support.
As of August 2018, the country supported over178,120 households to build and upgrade their houses.
This year, the country searched for remains offallen soldiers, finding 1,772 and identifying 161 cases that lackedinformation.
The rate of poor households nationwide wasreduced by 5.35 percent (down 1.35 percent compared to the previous year)thanks to localities’ attention to poverty reduction, support policies onhealth care, education, credit, agriculture and forestry expansion.
The country offered monthly social allowancesand health insurance cards for over 2.8 million people, including 42,434orphans, over 1.6 million elderly, over 1 million disabled, and nearly 4,400HIV/AIDS infected people.
A dozen of localities were able to balance theirbudgets to increase the provision of social allowances, namely Ha Giang, QuangNinh, Hanoi, Da Nang, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Ho Chi Minh City, Khanh Hoa, Ba Ria– Vung Tau, and Vinh Phuc.
For emergency subsidies, the country has witnessed14 types of natural disasters from the beginning of this year with total damageestimated at over 6.3 trillion VND (271 million USD). The Prime Minister hasdecided to provide 701,445 tonnes of rice for 4,417 households in Bac Kan, BinhDinh and Lai Chau, along with the nearly 12 million tonnes on the occasion oftraditional Lunar New Year for 796,425 needy people across 18 provinces.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of thecentral steering committee on implementing the Government’s Resolution No.70/NQ-CPon social welfare policies, suggested mobilising the participation of thecommunity and businesses in the field.
He added that the implementation of sustainablepoverty reduction programmes should focus on socio-economic development in ethnicminority, mountainous, border and island areas.
The Government official also recommendedcreating equal opportunities and providing necessary support for women,children and vulnerable people in the spirit of leaving no one behind.-VNA
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