New policies and regimes for officials who are not old enough to be re-elected or re-appointed

The Government has just issued a new Decree, replacing Decree No. 67/2010/ND-CP stipulating the regime and policies for cadres who do not meet the age requirements for re-election or re-appointment to positions and titles according to their terms in agencies of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the State, and socio-political organizations.

The Decree stipulates the regime and policies for cadres who do not meet the age requirements for re-election or re-appointment in 3 cases: Retiring before the age or continuing to work until reaching retirement age, or retiring and waiting for retirement age.

Specifically, for the case of cadres retiring before the age, the Decree clearly states: Cadres who do not meet the age requirements for re-election or reappointment and have paid social insurance for 20 years or more, if they submit a voluntary application for early retirement to the cadre management agency, will be entitled to pension benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and will not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement. In addition, they will be subsidized 3 months of salary for each year of early retirement compared to the provisions of Point a, Clause 1, Article 50 of the Law on Social Insurance; will be subsidized 5 months of salary for the first twenty years of work, with social insurance payment; from the twenty-first year onwards, for each year of work with social insurance payment, they will be subsidized 1/2 month of salary...

The Decree also provides preferential policies for commune-level cadres. Accordingly, commune-level cadres working in places with a regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 or higher; commune-level cadres who have served in the army or police and have been awarded medals and badges by the State, if they still lack the social insurance payment period of 2.5 years (30 months) or less to have enough time to pay social insurance for 20 years, will be supported by the State with a one-time social insurance payment for the remaining time to implement the retirement regime.

Policy for officials awaiting retirement

The Decree also clearly stipulates that cadres who do not meet the age requirements for re-election or reappointment and have not reached the prescribed retirement age, if they do not wish to retire early, the competent authority will arrange suitable work.

In case the new job position does not specify the salary or allowance for the position (not a leadership position) or has a salary or allowance for the position lower than the salary or allowance for the position already enjoyed, the salary or allowance for the position already enjoyed will be retained for 6 months; from the 7th month onwards, the salary or allowance for the position (if any) of the new job position will be enjoyed.

Cadres who do not meet the age requirements for re-election or reappointment and have less than 2 years (24 months) of work remaining will reach retirement age according to regulations. If they cannot be assigned a suitable job position and do not wish to retire early, they will be allowed to retire until they are old enough to retire.

During the time off work waiting for retirement age, cadres who do not meet the age requirements for re-election or reappointment are still under the management authority of the working agency and are entitled to the full salary or salary according to the rank, position allowance, seniority allowance beyond the framework, seniority allowance, salary retention difference, party work allowance (if any)...

This Decree takes effect from May 1, 2015, replacing Decree No. 67/2010/ND-CP dated June 15, 2010 of the Government. The regimes and policies stipulated in the new Decree will be implemented from January 1, 2015.

According to Chinhphu.vn