Conditions and standards for people enjoying policies like war invalids from 2027

Legal Consulting Department of Lao Dong Newspaper answers:

Clause 10, Article 1 of Ordinance 05/2026/UBTVQH16 (effective from January 1, 2027) amending and supplementing Article 23 of the Ordinance on Preferential Treatment for People with Meritorious Services to the Revolution 2020 stipulates the conditions and standards for wounded soldiers and people enjoying policies like wounded soldiers as follows:

1. Officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in the People's Army and officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in the People's Police who are injured with a body injury rate of 21% or more are considered by competent agencies and units to be recognized as wounded soldiers, granted "Wounded Soldier Certificate" and "Wounded Soldier Badge" when falling into one of the following cases:

a) Fighting or directly serving the fight to protect independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national security;

b) Performing national defense and security tasks in enemy-occupied areas, areas with war, areas adjacent to enemy-occupied areas;

c) Directly engage in political struggle, organized military campaign against the enemy;

d) Activities or participation in revolutionary activities, resistance wars, being captured and tortured by the enemy but still not submitting, resolutely fighting but leaving physical injuries;

d) Performing international duties;

e) Performing national defense and security tasks, protecting the Fatherland in special, difficult, dangerous conditions or in border areas, at sea, and on islands according to the list prescribed by the Government;

g) Directly performing tasks of fighting and preventing crime;

h) Bravely rescuing people, rescuing property of the State, of the People or bravely preventing and arresting people with criminal acts.

2. People who are not officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in the People's Army and officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in the People's Police who are injured with a body injury rate of 21% or more and fall into one of the cases specified in Clause 1 of this Article shall be considered by competent agencies and units to be recognized as beneficiaries of policies like war invalids and issued a "Certificate of beneficiary of policies like war invalids".

3. Type B war invalids are soldiers and people's police who were injured with a body injury rate of 21% or more during training and work and were recognized by competent agencies and units before December 31, 1993.

4. War invalids, people enjoying policies like war invalids, and injured people who have undergone examination and assessment and fall into the following cases are entitled to re-examination and assessment of the body injury rate:

a) War invalids, people enjoying policies like war invalids specified in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article who have particularly recurring wounds, remaining wounds, and additional wounds;

b) Injured soldiers of type B specified in Clause 3 of this Article with surviving wounds, additional wounds;

c) The injured person has remaining wounds, additional wounds.

Thus, from January 1, 2027, people with the above conditions and standards will be recognized as war invalids, people enjoying policies like war invalids.

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