On the afternoon of November 30, at the closing session of the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly, with 464/464 National Assembly deputies participating in the vote, the National Assembly passed the Resolution of the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly.
Secretary General of the National Assembly, Head of the National Assembly Office Le Quang Tung presented the draft Resolution of the 8th Session, 15th National Assembly.
The Secretary General of the National Assembly said that the resolution agreed to supplement the 2024 state budget expenditure estimate for ministries, central agencies and localities to implement the basic salary level as prescribed in Decree No. 73/2024/ND-CP of the Government.
Accordingly, add 55,000 billion VND of the central budget's salary reform savings to the 2024 state budget revenue estimate, and at the same time add the same amount to the 2024 state budget expenditure estimate, including:
- Supplement the budget for salary reform for the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security as per Government's Submission No. 54/TTr-CP.
- The remaining amount within the scope of VND 55,000 billion after supplementing the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security and VND 2,980 billion in the state budget balance of the year has been decided by the National Assembly in Resolution No. 105/2023/QH15, assigning the Government to decide on supplementing the 2024 salary reform expenditure estimate for ministries, central agencies and localities as per the Government's Submission No. 54/TTr-CP. The Government urgently allocates this expenditure task to ministries, branches and localities, ensuring timeliness.
The Government is responsible for the proposed content to ensure compliance with legal regulations, the accuracy of information and reported data, the necessity, completeness, reasonableness, compliance with standards, norms, and spending regimes to ensure compliance with legal regulations; at the same time, promptly organize implementation, ensuring the right purpose and effectiveness of the state budget.
Previously, on the morning of November 13, with 428/430 delegates participating in the vote, the National Assembly passed the Resolution on the state budget estimate for 2025.
Regarding the implementation of salary policy and some social policies, the National Assembly decided not to increase public sector salaries, pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, and preferential allowances for people with meritorious services in 2025.
Ministries, central and local agencies continue to implement solutions to create sources for salary policy reform according to regulations. Allow to continue to exclude some revenue items when calculating the increase in local budget revenue for salary reform.
Allow from July 1, 2024 to expand the scope of using the accumulated resources for salary reform of the central budget to adjust pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, preferential allowances for meritorious people and streamline the payroll.
Allow the use of local budget salary reform resources to implement social security policies issued by the Central Government and streamline payroll.
