5 cases of termination of monthly social allowance from October 2026

Legal Consulting Department of Lao Dong Newspaper answers:

Clause 2, Article 9, Decree 335/2026/ND-CP (effective from October 5, 2026) stipulates the termination of monthly social allowance when falling into one of the following cases:

a) Subjects who die or are missing according to the provisions of law;

b) Subjects who are no longer eligible to enjoy according to the provisions of Article 5 of this Decree;

c) Subjects serving prison sentences in prison or having a decision from a competent state agency on termination of enjoyment;

d) Subjects refusing to receive regimes and policies;

e) After 03 months from the date of the decision to temporarily suspend policy payments as prescribed in point b, clause 1 of this Article, the subject still does not carry out procedures to re-determine the level of disability, re-determine the conditions for enjoyment or provide other information to serve the management of the subject at the request of a competent state agency.

Thus, from October 5, 2026, the above-mentioned cases will no longer receive monthly social allowances.

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