Policy to support teachers in ethnic minority, mountainous, and border areas

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 2, Article 24 of the 2025 Law on Teachers (effective from January 1, 2026) stipulates as follows:

2. In addition to the policy specified in Clause 1 of this Article, teachers working in ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, islands and areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions; teachers teaching specialized schools; teachers implementing integration education; teachers teaching ethnic minority languages; teachers teaching enhanced Vietnamese to ethnic minority students; teachers teaching gifted subjects and arts are entitled to some support policies in the following policies:

a) To rent public housing in accordance with the provisions of the law on housing or to be guaranteed collective accommodation when working in ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, islands and areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions. In case the collective housing or public housing cannot be arranged, the housing rental will be supported at the level of public housing rental support according to the provisions of law;

b) Support for train and bus fares during working in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions as prescribed by law;

c) Allowance and subsidy regime according to subjects.

Clause 1, Article 24 of the 2025 Law on Teachers stipulates that teachers' support policies include:

a) Subsidy regime according to the nature of work, by region;

b) Support for training and fostering;

c) Support for periodic health care and occupational health care;

d) Mobile allowances for teachers working in illiteracy eradication, universal education, secondment, enhancement teaching, inter-school teaching, teaching at schools;

d) Other support policies for teachers according to the provisions of the law on civil servants, the law on labor and other relevant legal provisions.

Thus, from January 1, 2026, the policy of supporting teachers in ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, and islands is regulated as above.