12 million people affected by COVID-19 get support
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Most of the beneficiaries are poor and near-poor households and national contributors. Additionally, small businesses and free-lance laborers affected by the pandemic also got aid. The sum plus the payments for death benefits and pensions totaled 27 trillion Dongs.
The implementation of the social support package encountered difficulties and problems as a number of provinces lacked their budgets so they had to depend only on the Government’s financial allocation to provide financial aid for pandemic-affected individuals and organizations in accordance with the government’s policy.
Recently, the Government has regulated the policy, according to which teachers at all kinds of schools from kindergarten to high education also get benefits from the government’s social assistance package. The policy has also loosened the regulations on loans from social policy banks for enterprises to borrow money to pay salaries for their off-work employees.