HCMC labor department seeks another $405 mln for pandemic relief

A woman (L) in HCMC's Go Vap District fills in a document to receive Covid-19 support from authorities. Photo by VnExpress/Le Tuyet

The HCMC labor department has proposed an additional provision of VND9.247 trillion ($405.88 million) to support workers, poor people and other demographic categories as pandemic impacts persist.

Proposing the additional allocation of funds, the municipal Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs argued that the pandemic was still raging in HCMC and with a stringent lockdown in place, the people were in trouble and needed support.

Specifically, the department proposed that over 1.1 million informal workers in the city receive VND1.5 million each, totaling around VND1.66 trillion.

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