Politburo Member, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man has just signed and promulgated Law No. 05/2026/UBTVQH16 of the National Assembly Standing Committee amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Preferential Treatment for People with Meritorious Services to the Revolution No. 02/2020/UBTVQH14.
Article 23 of the Ordinance has stipulated conditions and standards for wounded soldiers and people enjoying policies like wounded soldiers.
1. Officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in the People's Army and officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in the People's Police who are injured with a body injury rate of 21% or more are considered by competent agencies and units to be recognized as wounded soldiers, and issued "Wounded Soldier Certificates" and "Wounded Soldier Badges" when falling into one of the following cases:
- Fighting or directly serving the fight to protect independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national security;
- Performing national defense and security duties in enemy-occupied areas, areas with war, areas adjacent to enemy-occupied areas;
- Directly engage in political struggle, organized military struggle with the enemy;
- Activities or participation in revolutionary activities, resistance wars, being captured and tortured by the enemy but still not submitting, resolutely fighting but leaving physical injuries;
- Performing international duties;
- Performing national defense, security, and defense tasks in special, difficult, dangerous conditions or in border areas, at sea, and on islands according to the list prescribed by the Government;
- Directly performing tasks of fighting and preventing crime;
- Bravely save people, save the property of the State, of the People or bravely prevent and arrest people who commit crimes.
2. People who are not officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in the People's Army and officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in the People's Police who are injured with a body injury rate of 21% or more belonging to one of the cases specified in Clause 1 of this Article are considered by competent agencies and units to be recognized as people enjoying policies like war invalids and issued "Certification of person enjoying policies like war invalids".
3. Injured soldiers of type B are soldiers and people's police who are injured with a body injury rate of 21% or more during training and work and have been recognized by competent agencies and units before December 31, 1993.
4. War invalids, people enjoying policies like war invalids, injured people who have been examined and assessed, in the following cases, are allowed to have a re-examination of the rate of physical injury:
- War invalids, people enjoying policies like war invalids specified in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article who have particularly recurrent injuries, remaining injuries, or additional injuries;
- Invalids of War type B specified in Clause 3 of this Article with surviving wounds, additional wounds;
- The injured person has remaining wounds, additional wounds.
5. The Government shall specify this.
Ordinance No. 05/2026/UBTVQH16 also amends and supplements Clause 3, Article 24 as follows: Nursing and health recovery once every two years; in cases with a body injury rate of 61% or more, annual health recovery nursing is allowed.
Amending and supplementing Clause 3, Article 27 as follows: Health recovery nursing once every two years; in cases with a body injury rate of 61% or more, health recovery nursing is provided annually.
