Information from the Ministry of Home Affairs said that this ministry has just issued a document to guide and answer some difficulties and problems in implementing the 2-level local government organization model. Including the implementation of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP regulating staff streamlining.
Regarding working time to calculate allowances for part-time workers at the commune level:
The Ministry of Home Affairs said that, based on the provisions of Clause 4, Clause 5, Article 5 of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP, the working time to calculate allowances for non-professional workers at the commune level is the total working time in the title of non-professional workers at the commune level and the working time with compulsory social insurance payment in other job positions in agencies of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations from the Central to the commune level and armed forces but have not received severance pay or have not received one-time social insurance or have not received demobilization or discharge.
Regarding subjects of application:
The Ministry of Home Affairs stated: Pursuant to Clause 6, Article 3 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP, subjects who have streamlined their payroll, if elected or re-recruited to agencies, organizations, and units receiving salaries from the state budget or arranged as non-professional workers in villages and residential groups within 60 months from the date of streamlining the payroll, must return the allowance received.
In case the Deputy Commander, when resolving the regime according to Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP, if arranged through the position of standing militia, does not have to return the money received according to Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP.
Regarding the standing militia force, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that this is a regular force on duty in key areas of national defense, receiving special allowances for national defense and military according to the provisions of the 2019 Law on Militia and Self-Defense Forces (amended and supplemented in 2025) and Decree No. 72/2020/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Law on Militia and Self-Defense Forces on the organization and construction of forces and regimes and policies for militia and self-defense forces (amended and supplemented in Decree No. 16/2025/ND-CP), not having to re-recruit into the payroll of agencies, organizations and units receiving salaries from the state budget or being part-time workers at the commune, village and residential group level.
