The National Assembly has just passed a Resolution on the State budget estimate for 2025.
The resolution agreed not to increase public sector salaries, pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, and preferential allowances for meritorious people in 2025.
However, the Resolution still leaves open the possibility of considering increasing public sector salaries, pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, and preferential allowances for meritorious people.
In the Resolution, the National Assembly assigned the Government to direct relevant ministries and agencies to study and propose solutions to unreasonable issues arising in the regime for a number of subjects and professions (civil servants in education, health, etc.); propose to continue adjusting and increasing public sector salaries, pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, and preferential allowances for meritorious people in case the socio-economic situation in 2025 is more favorable and resources are balanced, and report to competent authorities for consideration and decision.
In addition, the Government is assigned to continue directing ministries, central and local agencies to streamline staff, reorganize the administrative apparatus to be streamlined, operate effectively and efficiently; innovate management and financial mechanisms, reorganize the system of public service units, and reduce direct support from the state budget for public service units.
The Resolution agreed to use 60,000 billion VND of the central budget's accumulated salary reform fund and 50,619 billion VND of the local budget's salary reform fund until the end of 2024, with the remaining balance transferred to the 2025 budget arrangement of ministries, central and local agencies to implement the basic salary level of 2.34 million VND/month.
