Which elderly people receive monthly social benefits?

Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 5, Article 5 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP stipulates that elderly people in one of the following cases are eligible for social protection and receive monthly social allowances:

a) Elderly people who are poor households and have no one with the obligation and right to support them, or have someone with the obligation and right to support them but this person is receiving monthly social allowance;

b) Elderly people from 75 to 80 years old, belonging to poor households or near-poor households not specified in Point a of this Clause, living in communes and villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas with special difficulties;

c) People aged 80 years or older who are not subject to the provisions of Point a of this Clause and do not have a pension, monthly social insurance allowance, or monthly social allowance;

d) Elderly people from poor households, without anyone with the obligation and right to support them, without conditions to live in the community, eligible for admission to social assistance facilities but have someone to raise and care for them in the community.

Thus, the elderly in the above cases receive monthly social allowance.