The Ministry of Justice has announced the appraisal dossier for the draft ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on Preferential Treatment for People with Meritorious Services to the Revolution, drafted by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Notably, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed to supplement the regime of allowances for servants for revolutionary activists before January 1, 1945 (veteran revolutionary cadres) and revolutionary activists from January 1, 1945 to the August Revolution in 1945 (pre-revolutionary cadres).
According to the current regulations of the Ordinance on Preferential Treatment for People with Meritorious Services to the Revolution, the allowance regime for servants is newly applied to a number of groups of people with meritorious services who have particularly severe health conditions or reduced self-sufficiency in daily life (such as Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, wounded soldiers, sick soldiers, people enjoying policies like wounded soldiers, people who participated in the resistance war and were infected with chemical toxins with a body injury rate of 81% or more living in families).
Current law does not have regulations that revolutionary activists before January 1, 1945 and revolutionary activists from January 1, 1945 to the August Revolution in 1945 are entitled to the above regime.
Reality shows that the majority of veteran revolutionary cadres and pre-insurrection cadres are now old (from 90 to 105 years old), their health has declined, and in many cases they are no longer able to serve themselves and need regular care in daily life.
The addition of subsidy regimes for servants for these subjects aims to ensure more full attention and care from the Party and State for people with meritorious services to the revolution who are veteran revolutionary cadres, pre-insurrection cadres; and at the same time ensure policy similarity between groups of people with meritorious services with similar conditions and circumstances.
The addition of this regime is also consistent with the policy of continuing to improve the policy of preferential treatment for people with meritorious services in the direction of expanding beneficiaries, improving the level of care for people with meritorious services who are old and weak; contributing to better ensuring living conditions, health care and expressing the ethnic tradition of "When drinking water, remember the source" in the current period.
According to the draft Ordinance, the supplementation of the allowance regime for service providers for 2 subjects includes: Monthly allowance for service providers and health insurance premiums for service providers.
According to 2026 data, the number of revolutionary activists before January 1, 1945 was 210 people; the number of revolutionary activists from January 1, 1945 to the August Revolution in 1945 was 583 people, totaling 793 people.
According to calculations, the expected additional funding to implement the policy of subsidizing servants for the above two groups of people with meritorious services is about 27.54 billion VND/year.
This increase is not large because the number is still small and decreasing rapidly over the years due to old age and weak health (in 2025 there were 1,008 people, by 2026 there will be 793 people, a decrease of 215 people). Therefore, policy implementation costs will continue to decrease in the following years.
