Hanoi allocates 200 billion VND to social welfare
Hanoi has decided to allocate an
additional 200 billion VND to shore up social
welfare, targeting farmers who lost land to investment projects, and
workers made redundant by the economic slowdown.
Hanoi has decided to allocate an
additional 200 billion VND (11.24 million USD) to shore up social
welfare, targeting farmers who lost land to investment projects, and
workers made redundant by the economic slowdown.
Of the sum, 34 billion VND will be spent to help farmers whose land are taken over for projects.
More than 157 billion VND will be used to assist workers who lost their jobs due to economic slowdown, through the city’s fund for job generation and recruitment activities at districts that have great numbers of unemployed labourers and a project on loans to 1,000 poor households.
Vocational training establishments will also receive subsidies from the funding.
Nearly 8.3 billion VND is added to the poverty alleviation budget in order to reduce 2 percent of the total number of poor households and build houses for poor families.
In addition, the Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare is working with farmers and women associations in carrying out projects to assist poor households in breeding cows and planting trees in outskirts districts, mainly Chuong My, My Duc, Ung Hoa, Quoc Oai, Ba Vi and Thach That./.
Of the sum, 34 billion VND will be spent to help farmers whose land are taken over for projects.
More than 157 billion VND will be used to assist workers who lost their jobs due to economic slowdown, through the city’s fund for job generation and recruitment activities at districts that have great numbers of unemployed labourers and a project on loans to 1,000 poor households.
Vocational training establishments will also receive subsidies from the funding.
Nearly 8.3 billion VND is added to the poverty alleviation budget in order to reduce 2 percent of the total number of poor households and build houses for poor families.
In addition, the Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare is working with farmers and women associations in carrying out projects to assist poor households in breeding cows and planting trees in outskirts districts, mainly Chuong My, My Duc, Ung Hoa, Quoc Oai, Ba Vi and Thach That./.
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