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| Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son met and expressed gratitude to officials, civil servants, public employees and workers who are relatives of war invalids, martyrs and people with revolutionary contributions on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947 - July 27, 2023). (Photo: Tuan Anh) |
Complete the system of policies and laws that favor people with meritorious services.
The preferential policy for people with revolutionary contributions has always been of interest to our Party and State. This is a special policy that demonstrates the nation's morality of "When drinking water, remember its source". Over the past years, the country's socio-economic development achievements have increasingly created favorable conditions for the entire Party, people and army to better care for the material and spiritual lives of people with revolutionary contributions. Continuing to improve and supplement policies and laws on preferential treatment for people with revolutionary contributions will contribute to improving the effectiveness of the activities of "Repaying gratitude" and "When drinking water, remember its source" of our Party and State.
The Standing Committee of the National Assembly has issued the Ordinance on Preferential Treatment for People with Revolutionary Contributions, amended in 2020, and documents guiding its implementation, promptly institutionalizing the Party's viewpoints, policies, and guidelines on preferential treatment for people with revolutionary contributions, in accordance with each historical period of the country. The scope of people with meritorious services is increasingly expanding, and preferential treatment is increasingly improved, closely linked to ensuring fairness and social consensus.
| “Agencies, units, as well as each individual, through specific and practical actions with a high sense of responsibility, should proactively and creatively carry out more practical activities, considering it a duty, responsibility and also a sentiment to express deep gratitude to those who have devoted and sacrificed for the cause of national liberation, national reunification and firmly protecting our beloved socialist Vietnam Fatherland.” (General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong) |
Right on the occasion of this traditional July, the Government issued Decree No. 55 dated July 21, 2023 amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 75/2021/ND-CP stipulating the levels of allowances, subsidies and preferential regimes for people with revolutionary contributions, accordingly, the standard level of allowances and preferential allowances for people with revolutionary contributions increased by 26.5% and was applied from July 1, 2023.
The President also signed Decision No. 715/QD-CTN dated June 19, 2023, giving gifts to nearly 1.4 million people with revolutionary contributions and relatives of people with revolutionary contributions in 2023.
At the 2023 National Conference on Commending Outstanding People with Meritorious Services to the Revolution recently held in Thua Thien - Hue province, Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung said that the Prime Minister has considered and approved the planning of the network of social facilities to nurture and care for people with meritorious services to the revolution in the 2021 - 2030 period, with a vision to 2050, in order to form a system of facilities with sufficient scale and capacity to meet the requirements of nurturing and caring for people with meritorious services; ensuring that people with meritorious services have access to and enjoy comprehensive care services, both physically and mentally.
After 6 years of implementing the policy of accelerating the process of confirming people with revolutionary contributions and resolving backlog of cases to ensure publicity and transparency, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has basically resolved over 7,000 cases.
In particular, the Prime Minister was asked to recognize and grant certificates of merit to more than 2,400 martyrs, more than 2,700 war invalids, and those who enjoyed policies like war invalids, especially those who died during the anti-French period, some of whom died 91 years ago and are only now eligible to be recognized as martyrs, such as Mr. Pham Khanh in Thanh Chuong district, Nghe An province; martyr Trang Hong Vinh, Cau Ngang district, Tra Vinh province, formerly a signalman (reporter), died in 1953, and was in War Zone R, but no longer has comrades, records, or evidence.
On the occasion of the 76th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day this year, with many efforts of the authorities, martyr Trang Hong Vinh was recognized by the Prime Minister and awarded the Certificate of National Merit in the boundless joy of his relatives and the Post and Telecommunications industry.
With the promulgation and comprehensive implementation of the above preferential policies for people with revolutionary contributions, in the period of 2012-2022, the state budget will be allocated to implement monthly subsidies, allowances, one-time subsidies and other preferential policies such as: health insurance, health care, provision of assistive devices, orthopedic devices, rehabilitation devices and equipment; educational incentives, support for improving housing, orthopedic devices, nursing, educational incentives, grave and cemetery work, searching and collecting martyrs' remains, etc.
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| The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinated with the People's Committee of Quang Tri province to organize the Vietnam Summer Camp 2023 Delegation to visit and present gifts to Vietnamese Heroic Mothers in the province. In the photo: Mother Ngo Thi Xiec receives gifts from the Vietnam Summer Camp 2023 Delegation. (Photo: Huy Anh) |
Gratitude - noble morality
Activities to show gratitude, the movement "All people take care of families of war invalids, martyrs and people with revolutionary contributions", have increasingly developed from the central to local levels, received social support and response, becoming a beautiful tradition of the nation, enthusiastically responded to by the majority of people with a sense of responsibility and high social awareness.
The work of searching for and collecting martyrs' remains, building and renovating cemeteries and martyrs' memorials has been focused on and achieved positive results.
The whole country has mobilized over 13,000 billion VND to support families of meritorious people to build over 84,000 new houses and repair over 69,000 gratitude houses; donated nearly 126,000 savings books to policy families with over 1,000 billion VND and supported a number of especially difficult cases, 2,988 Vietnamese Heroic Mothers who are still alive are cared for and supported by organizations for life, warming the souls of the deceased heroes and martyrs and contributing to reducing the pain for those left behind.
During the 2012-2022 period, the State has spent more than VND 357,000 billion to implement the regime for meritorious people and their relatives and families. The whole country has mobilized over VND 13,000 billion to support households of meritorious people to build over 84,000 new houses and repair over 69,000 gratitude houses; donated nearly 126,000 savings books to policy families with a total amount of over VND 1,000 billion; done a good job of caring for and supporting nearly 3,000 Vietnamese Heroic Mothers for life, including very old mothers such as Mother Nguyen Thi Diem, 98 years old, Mother Ngo Thi Dien, 97 years old - noble mothers, worthy of the 8 golden words that President Ho Chi Minh respectfully praised for Vietnamese women: "Heroic - Indomitable - Loyal - Responsible".
| Continue to review, research, improve and better implement policies and laws for meritorious people in a timely and effective manner, ensuring that meritorious people and their families have a living standard of average or higher in the area with the spirit of not leaving any meritorious person without enjoying preferential policies of our Party and State. (Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh spoke at the conference to commend 300 delegates of meritorious people and their exemplary relatives held on July 22 in Hue city) |
Ho Chi Minh City is a locality that regularly leads the country in the "Repaying gratitude" movement. Currently, the City's "Repaying gratitude" Fund has mobilized nearly 189 billion VND, contributing to improving the lives of policy families, ensuring that 100% of living Vietnamese Heroic Mothers are cared for by units and 100% of communes and wards do a good job in the work of war invalids and martyrs. Notably, in 2023, the City spent more than 77 billion VND to give gifts to 73,434 meritorious people and their relatives on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day.
According to the Hanoi Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, as of July 20, the entire city has mobilized the Gratitude Fund to raise over VND28 billion; donated 735 "Gratitude" savings books with a budget of over VND2.3 billion. At the same time, the city has repaired and upgraded 57 works honoring martyrs with a budget of over VND6.9 billion.
Currently, 70/70 Vietnamese Heroic Mothers who are still alive are being cared for by agencies and units. In Vinh Long, in the first 6 months of 2023, the province has coordinated and supported the construction and repair of 383 houses for families of people with revolutionary contributions, of which 198 houses have been completed so far; supported 180 people with revolutionary contributions in difficult circumstances with more than 280 million VND from the Gratitude Fund; organized 2 groups of people with revolutionary contributions to receive centralized treatment in localities...
Regarding the regime and policies for caring for people with meritorious services, recently, at the 11th Session, 16th term, the Hai Phong City People's Council passed the "Resolution regulating the city's gift-giving policy for policy beneficiaries and special beneficiaries on the occasion of annual holidays and Tet". Chairman of the Hai Phong City People's Council Pham Van Lap affirmed that the issued Resolution is a guarantee of the sustainability of the mechanism and policies on social security in the city. The Resolution is even more meaningful when issued on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day, July 27...
The special attention of the entire political system and the entire population to care for those with meritorious services clearly demonstrates the fine traditions and ethics of the nation. However, there are still many concerns when the lives of a part of the wounded soldiers, relatives of martyrs, and families of those with meritorious services to the revolution are still difficult; many martyrs have not yet found their remains, and their identities have not been determined...
Therefore, at the conference to honor 300 delegates of people with meritorious services and their relatives recently held in Hue city, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested all levels, sectors and localities to continue to effectively implement the Party's guidelines, the State's policies and laws, further promote the care of war invalids, sick soldiers, families of martyrs and people with meritorious services to the revolution, focusing on strongly promoting the tradition of "When drinking water, remember the source", "When eating fruit, remember the person who planted the tree", thoroughly grasp and effectively implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, the Directive of the Secretariat on continuing to strengthen the Party's leadership over the work of people with meritorious services to the revolution, the Ordinance on preferential treatment for people with meritorious services to the revolution; attract social resources, effectively carry out the movements of "Repaying gratitude" such as: Building "Houses of gratitude", "Repaying gratitude" Fund, giving "Savings books of gratitude", taking care of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers...; contribute to compensating for the disadvantages of people with meritorious services and families with meritorious services to the revolution.
President Ho Chi Minh once advised: “The soldiers sacrificed their blood and bones to protect the country… The soldiers are truly worthy of the Fatherland and the Fatherland will never forget such beloved children”. With great responsibility and deep affection, our Party, State, Government and People vow to continue to take good care to ease the pain, ensuring that no meritorious person is left without preferential policies.
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