Currently, the elderly support policy is implemented according to Decree No. 20/2021/ND-CP; amended and supplemented by Decree No. 76/2024/ND-CP.
According to Clause 5, Article 5 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP, there are 4 groups of elderly people receiving monthly social allowances.
First, the elderly are poor households, there are no people with the right to support; or there are people with the right to support but this person is receiving monthly social allowances.
Second, the elderly from the age of 75 to 80 are poor households, near-poor households (not in the first case) living in communes and villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas with special difficulties.
Third, people aged 80 and over (not in the first case) without pension, monthly social insurance allowance, monthly social allowance.
Fourth, the elderly are poor households, have no one with the right to care for them, do not have the conditions to live in the community, are eligible to be admitted to social assistance facilities but have people to care for them in the community.
From July 1 onwards, the 2024 Social Insurance Law takes effect, adding social pension benefits for the elderly.
Currently, the Government has drafted a Decree detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Social Insurance 2024 on social pension benefits.
According to the draft, there are 2 groups of elderly people entitled to social pension benefits.
The first is the group of people aged 75 and over; not receiving monthly pension or social insurance benefits.
Second is the group of people aged 70 to under 75 who are poor or near-poor households; do not receive monthly pensions or social insurance benefits.
At the same time, with the addition of 2 groups of elderly people receiving social pension benefits as above, the 2 groups of elderly people receiving monthly social benefits (the second and third groups according to Article 5 of Decree 20) will be abolished. These two groups have switched to receiving social pension benefits.
