What is the crime of village officials illegally handling subsistence allowances and collecting benefits?

According to the law, if villagers' committees and other village grass-roots organizations take advantage of their positions to ask for or illegally accept other people's property in the process of assisting the people's government in administrative management, which constitutes a crime, the provisions of the Criminal Law on the crime of accepting bribes shall apply, and criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to the specific circumstances and the amount of bribes.

Legal basis:

The National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) discussed what village grass-roots organizations such as villagers' committees are engaged in in "other persons engaged in public affairs according to law" as stipulated in the second paragraph of Article 93 of the Criminal Law, and explained as follows:

Members of village grass-roots organizations, such as villagers' committees, assist the people's government to carry out the following administrative work, which belongs to "other persons engaged in public affairs according to law" as stipulated in the second paragraph of Article 93 of the Criminal Law:

(a) disaster relief, emergency rescue, flood control, special care, poverty alleviation, immigration, disaster relief funds and materials management;

(two) the management of social donations to public welfare undertakings;

(three) the operation and management of state-owned land;

(four) the management of land expropriation compensation fees;

(5) Collecting and paying taxes;

(six) family planning, household registration and conscription;

(seven) to assist other administrative work of the people's government.

The provisions of Articles 382 and 383 of the Criminal Law on the crimes of corruption, misappropriation of public funds, bribery, embezzlement, embezzlement and bribery are applicable to those who engage in official duties as mentioned in the preceding paragraph, take advantage of their positions, illegally occupy public property, misappropriate public funds, ask for or illegally accept other people's property.