On May 29, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Gia Lai province said that regarding the reflection on the payment of damage support due to natural disasters to people in Binh Dinh ward, in which some cases only received a few thousand VND, the Provincial People's Committee has requested this ward to rectify, seriously learn from experience, and not let the situation of people having to wait and travel many times to receive too small support amounts recur.
The Provincial People's Committee directs departments and branches to review and guide communes and wards to properly implement the process of declaring, inspecting, appraising, publicizing, paying and finalizing support funds for damage caused by natural disasters; ensuring compliance with regulations, publicity, transparency, suitability for reality and convenience for people.
Request communes and wards to urgently complete the payment of damage support to people, ensuring the right subjects, at the right level, and in a timely manner.
According to the Gia Lai Department of Agriculture and Environment, after the historic storm and flood at the end of 2025, the province mobilized many resources to implement 16 urgent projects to stabilize population in disaster-stricken areas for more than 1,800 households.
The province also implements many emergency support policies to ensure social security. In which, households with completely collapsed houses are supported with 60 million VND/house; houses with completely blown roofs 5 million VND/house; partially damaged houses 2 million VND/house. Households with lost houses are reviewed and arranged for safe resettlement according to regulations.
Poor, near-poor and difficult households are supported with 2 million VND/month (houses are flooded); 15kg of rice/person/month for 3 months.
The Prime Minister has urgently supported Gia Lai with 830 billion VND and 4,000 tons of rice to overcome the consequences of natural disasters.
The whole province mobilized more than 20,000 officers, soldiers and local forces to participate in repairing schools, health stations, public works, houses and environmental sanitation, helping people soon stabilize their lives.
By the end of 2025, Gia Lai had completed the repair of 27,522 affected houses, reaching 100% of the plan; completed the rebuilding of all houses collapsed and swept away by storm No. 13 and floods.
As of December 31, 2025, the province has spent more than 1,587 billion VND on disaster prevention and recovery from natural disasters from the central budget, local budget and socialized sources...
As Lao Dong newspaper has reported, previously, a post appeared on Facebook reflecting the payment of damage support due to storm No. 13 in Binh Dinh ward. The content attracted attention when some households only received a few thousand VND in support money.
Through investigation, Mr. N.H. S (75 years old, residing in Hieu An residential group, Binh Dinh ward) said that after storm No. 13, his family's glass doors were broken, the corrugated iron roof behind the house was blown off, and 2 ornamental plant pots were damaged. After the storm, the locality issued damage declarations. After that, the family was notified to receive 2,600 VND in support money.
In addition to Mr. S.'s case, some other households were also supported for apricot tree damage with levels from a few thousand to tens of thousands of VND...
Leaders of Binh Dinh Ward People's Committee said that this is the first support phase for crop damage after the storm, with a total budget of about 312 million VND for 401 households.
Some households received low support levels due to small actual damage, mainly ornamental plants or crops with small area and quantity.
In the process of implementation, grassroots officials still made shortcomings in guiding people to declare, especially for minor damages.
