Ensure the regime for officials to retire early

(Baonghean) - Implementing Decree 26/2015/ND-CP of the Government stipulating regimes and policies for cadres who do not meet the age requirements for re-election or reappointment to positions and titles according to the term of office, Nghe An Social Insurance in particular and Nghe An province in general have proactively and flexibly deployed, resolved correctly, fully and promptly the regimes and policies for the subjects.

Mr. Sam Ngoc Toan, 60 years old, is the former Chairman of the People's Committee of Chau Quang Commune (Quy Hop). Before becoming Deputy Chief of the Commune Police in 1992, Mr. Toan had 15 years of service as a border guard (from 1975 to 1990). Before the Commune Party Congress for the 2015 - 2020 term held in June 2015, Mr. Toan was past the age of re-election but still had nearly 2 years to reach the age of 60 to retire according to the regime. At the beginning of 2015, Mr. Toan was quite worried about his pension and salary benefits. However, his concern was resolved when Decree 26/2015/ND-CP dated March 9, 2015 of the Government was issued, regulating the regime and policies for cadres who do not meet the age requirements for re-election or reappointment to hold positions and titles according to their terms in agencies of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the State, socio-political organizations at the Central level, in provinces and centrally run cities; in districts, towns, provincial cities and in communes, wards and towns.

People receive pensions in Linh Son commune (Anh Son). Photo: Quoc Minh

Mr. Toan said: “With peace of mind, I wrote a voluntary early retirement application to the personnel management agency. I have received retirement benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and received some additional benefits such as not having my pension rate deducted due to early retirement; receiving salary subsidies for each year of early retirement, and insurance premium support... The total amount of subsidies until I received my pension book was 72 million VND. Personally, I found that the agencies, departments, and social insurance resolved the matter quickly and satisfactorily.”

Along with Mr. Toan, according to information from the Provincial Social Insurance: Up to now, 238/239 subjects have had their benefits resolved promptly according to Decree 26/2015/ND-CP. Mr. Nguyen Quang Quyet - Head of Regime Department, Provincial Social Insurance said: Immediately after receiving Official Letter No. 3624/BHXH-CSXH dated September 22, 2015 of Vietnam Social Insurance on instructions for implementing the social insurance regime according to Decree 26, Nghe An Social Insurance promptly issued Document No. 3238 dated September 30, 2015 to the Professional Departments, Social Insurance of districts, towns and cities to thoroughly study Decree 26/2015/ND-CP, Instructions No. 35 and 36-HD/BTCTW of the Central Organizing Committee, Official Letter No. 3624/BHXH-CSXH and assigned Social Insurance of districts, towns and cities to receive dossiers in the province, and at the same time sent a document to the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee, the Department of Home Affairs, the Standing Committees of district, city and city Party Committees in the province on coordination in resolving the regime according to Decree 26/ND-CP for subjects in accordance with regulations.

Agencies, units, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities in Nghe An province have promptly disseminated and guided the preparation of dossiers; checked and approved dossiers, decided on early retirement, and retirement until reaching retirement age for those who meet the conditions under their authority or proposed competent authorities to decide and sent a written request for implementation of regimes and policies to the Department of Home Affairs, the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board, and the Department of Finance. The Social Insurance Agency has proactively worked with the Department of Home Affairs when units made lists to submit; the Department of Home Affairs has conducted appraisal and synthesis to submit to the Provincial People's Committee to make lists and budget estimates to send to the Ministry of Finance. This list is also sent to the Provincial Social Insurance Agency, thereby, the Provincial Social Insurance Agency proactively and continuously urged the Social Insurance agencies of districts/towns/cities to urge the labor-using units to complete dossiers in order to make payments of regimes and policies in accordance with regulations after being approved by competent authorities. When there are completed dossiers submitted, the Provincial Social Insurance Agency prioritizes immediate settlement.

Coordinate payment of pensions and social insurance benefits through the postal system. Photo courtesy

By August 2016, Nghe An Social Insurance has basically received documents and resolved the policies for subjects approved by competent authorities in a timely and guaranteed manner, creating excitement for beneficiaries of social insurance policies. Up to now, there is only one case that has not been resolved, that is Ms. Nguyen Thi Soa, former Vice Chairwoman of Nghi Huong Ward People's Council (Cua Lo Town). Ms. Soa previously worked at the Fuel Company, then retired and joined the ward. To enjoy the policy, it is necessary to add up the working time at both agencies. However, the work records of the previous period are not complete, need to be supplemented to add up the time, and the provincial Social Insurance is continuing to help Ms. Soa do this.

Not only the provincial Social Insurance agency, implementing Decree 26, departments, localities and units in the province have actively implemented it. The Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee has proactively surveyed and classified cadres in advance, so it has advised the Provincial Party Committee's Standing Committee to issue many documents directing Party committees at all levels to implement and advise the province to resolve each specific case. The resolution of this policy regime is very flexible, such as applying Decree 108/2014/CP on the policy of streamlining payroll to ensure policies for cadres, especially commune-level cadres; using the province's salary reform source to pay for those who are less than 24 months away from retirement age with an amount of more than 1 billion VND. Thanks to that, Nghe An is one of the few localities that effectively resolves difficulties in implementing Decree 26.

Thanh Son