Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan to organize activities and funds to care for the 2026 Binh Ngo Tet, with a total budget of more than 2,123 billion VND.
Ho Chi Minh City will give Tet gifts with a level from 1 million VND to 10 million VND to policy beneficiaries, people with meritorious services, people enjoying retirement benefits, poor households, and social protection beneficiaries.
In the area of policies for meritorious services, the City arranged 210,008 gifts, divided into 12 groups of subjects, corresponding to 12 levels of support.
Group 1: 10 million VND/prize for 72 Vietnamese Heroic Mothers who are receiving monthly preferential allowances.
Group 2: 7 million VND/seat for 120 veteran revolutionary cadres, pre-insurrection cadres and Heroes of the People's Armed Forces who are receiving monthly allowances.
Group 3: 3.1 million VND/prize for 355 wounded soldiers, people enjoying policies such as wounded soldiers, sick soldiers with a body injury rate of 81% or more and with particularly severe injuries and diseases.
Group 4: 3 million VND/place for 93 relatives of 2 or more martyrs who are receiving monthly death benefits.
Group 5: 2.8 million VND/seat for 8,228 relatives worshiping Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and People's Armed Forces Heroes.
Group 6: 2.5 million VND/share, including 6,211 relatives of martyrs, people who nurtured martyrs, wives or husbands of remarried martyrs who are receiving monthly allowances.
Group 7: 2.2 million VND/seat, including 623 wounded soldiers, sick soldiers, people infected with chemical toxins with a body injury rate of 81% or more.
Group 8: 2 million VND/seat, including 8,625 people with meritorious services to the revolution, relatives who are receiving monthly retirement benefits, wounded soldiers ranked 2/4.
Group 9: 1.8 million VND/session, including 15,533 wounded soldiers, people enjoying policies like wounded soldiers with a body injury rate of 21% to 60%.
Group 10: 1.7 million VND/seat, including 106,198 people, who are prisoners of war, sick soldiers, revolutionary and resistance activists, protecting the Fatherland, and people who were commended with resistance orders and medals.
Group 11: 1.5 million VND/seat, including 14,209 people, children of people infected with chemical toxins, youth volunteers who completed tasks in the resistance war and subjects receiving one-time allowances according to regulations.
Group 12: 1 million VND/place, including 49,741 people receiving one-time allowances according to the Prime Minister's decisions.
For subjects who are receiving monthly social insurance benefits, Ho Chi Minh City spends 348,600 gifts, divided into 2 groups.
Group 1, level 1.8 million VND/seat, including 316,530 people, who are pensioners and retired commune and ward officials.
Group 2, level 1.3 million VND/person, including 32,070 people, who are people with labor accidents, loss of working capacity, people receiving monthly death benefits and subjects enjoying benefits according to the Prime Minister's decision.
People with prestige among ethnic minorities in the City were given gifts worth 2.5 million VND/gift to 1,228 people.
For poor households, the support level is 1.5 million VND/household, with 6,031 households benefiting.
Social protection beneficiaries living in the community are allocated 410,843 allowances by Ho Chi Minh City, each allowance of 1.5 million VND.
Ho Chi Minh City also gave Tet gifts worth 2 million VND to 214,430 officials, civil servants, public employees and workers.
Among them, 165,779 people are cadres, civil servants, public employees and laborers of agencies of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the State, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, public non-business units managed by the City (excluding public non-business units of group 1, group 2), people working at associations assigned tasks by the Party and the State, and non-specialized personnel at the commune level.
In addition, 48,651 people are officials, civil servants, public employees and workers working at central agencies headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
