Supporting couples to have children and raise children from employment policies and salaries
The Population Law stipulates the State's policies on population, including support for couples to have children, raise children through jobs, salaries, housing, etc.
The National Assembly has passed the Population Law, which consists of 8 chapters and 30 articles, effective from July 1, 2026.
This Law stipulates communication, mobilization, and education on population; maintaining replacement fertility rates, minimizing gender imbalances at birth; adapting to population aging; improving population quality and conditions to ensure population work.
The law also sets out many State policies on population. In particular, population is identified as the top important factor in the cause of building, developing and defending the Fatherland.
Implementing population and development policies through measures to maintain replacement fertility, minimizing gender imbalances at birth, improving population quality in relations with socio-economic factors, national defense and security associated with building a rich, prosperous, civilized and happy country.
Implementing population and development policies is the responsibility of the entire political system, of each individual, family, enterprise, organization and the whole society. The State plays a leading role in mobilizing society to implement population policies.
In addition, there are policies to improve the quality of the population in terms of physical, intellectual and spiritual aspects; protect and develop the population for ethnic minorities with very few people.
Based on the socio-economic conditions of each period, the State has appropriate policies to support couples and individuals who have children and raise children through policies on labor, employment, wages, social insurance, health insurance, subsidies, education, health care, housing and other policies to increase the birth rate, achieve sustainable replacement fertility; priority is given to provinces and cities with a fertility level below the replacement fertility rate.
The law also stipulates the need for policies to adapt to population aging; develop a network of geriatric and geriatric hospitals in general hospitals; develop elderly care activities; ensure the elderly have easy access to medical services and a social environment suitable to socio-economic conditions.
At the same time, encourage preparation for the elderly when they are young; encourage and give incentives to businesses and organizations participating in the production and supply of goods and services for the elderly according to the provisions of law.
Support the elderly in labor, employment, social security, participating in startups, developing the economy, participating in digital transformation; developing long-term care insurance and other forms of health insurance.
Prioritize and support the implementation of population work in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, commune-level administrative units with special difficulties in coastal, coastal and island areas.
Have policies to promote research, application, promote the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation in the demographic sector.
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