Ho Chi Minh City: Giving more than 475,000 Tet gifts to disadvantaged people

On January 4, Ms. Huynh Le Nhu Trang, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City, informed that on Tet Giap Thin 2024, Ho Chi Minh City will continue to take care of Tet for policy, pensioners, and others. social protection, the elderly, orphans, members of poor households, near-poor households and those with difficult circumstances in the area, number of 475,459 gifts.

In addition, Ho Chi Minh City continues to care for Tet for 135,358 civil servants, administrative and non-business officials in the city, district, Thu Duc City and a number of vertical agencies.

The total estimated budget for organizing activities and taking care of the Year of the Dragon is 915 billion VND, an increase of 34 billion VND compared to the Year of the Cat in 2023, which is spent from the city budget”Deputy Director Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said.

According to Ms. Trang, for poor households near poor, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs plans to care and support 21,422 households with a support level of 1,250,000 VND/household.

At the same time, the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs coordinated with the city’s Vietnam Fatherland Front to support 18,209 near-poor households with a support level of 1 million VND/household.

On the occasion of this year’s Lunar New Year, the Fatherland Front Committee Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam also plans to take care of more than 33,000 cases with a total cost of more than 335 billion VND from funds that the Ho Chi Minh City Fatherland Front mobilizes and manages. In addition, the Fatherland Front system at all levels plans to take care of Tet for people with more than 150 billion VND.

In addition, the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation also has a plan to take care of and support workers in difficult circumstances who have lost their jobs and reduced hours. do… with the motto “Tet comes to all trade union members.

Priority will be given to taking care of trade union members at businesses whose orders are cut and cannot return home to celebrate Tet… with a budget of about 130 billion VND.