Salary and allowance regime for military officers who change careers

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The regime and policies for military officers who transfer their positions are stipulated in the recent consolidated document of the Ministry of National Defense.

On March 19, according to the Ministry of National Defense's Electronic Information Portal, the Ministry of National Defense issued Concluding Document No. 09/VBHN-BQP of the Decree detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army on regimes and policies for officers who cease to serve in the army; officers in active service who died or died; officers in active service who are transferred to professional soldiers or defense civil servants.

The regime and policies for officers transferred from another profession are stated in Article 3 of this Decree.

Accordingly, officers transferred to work at state agencies, public service units, and socio-political organizations receiving salaries from the state budget (collectively referred to as agencies and units) enjoy the following benefits:

To be given priority in arranging jobs suitable for professional, technical and technical fields; to be trained and fostered in necessary professional and technical fields suitable for the assigned work;

Exemption from entrance exams, if transferring majors to old agencies or units or transferring majors at the request of a competent state agency;

Be given priority to add points to the results of the civil service and public employee recruitment exam according to the provisions of law on cadres, civil servants and public employees at the time of the exam;

Officers are arranged and receive salaries according to new job positions, new jobs, and new positions from the effective date of the decision to change jobs.

In case the salary by group, rank, or grade is classified as lower than the salary by military rank of the officer at the time of transfer, the salary and seniority allowance will be reserved and paid - received according to the social insurance (SI) regime at the time of transfer for 18 months, from the effective date of the decision to transfer and will be paid by the new agency or unit...

The continued payment of retention salary outside the 18-month period will be considered and decided by the Head of the competent authority managing cadres, civil servants and public employees in accordance with the internal salary correlation.

Officers who have transferred fields and are eligible for pension, if the average monthly salary for social insurance contributions is used as a basis for calculating pensions according to the provisions of the law on social insurance at the time of retirement, lower than the average monthly salary for social insurance contributions at the time of transfer, will be taken from the average monthly salary for social insurance contributions at the time of transfer, converted according to the salary regime prescribed at the time of retirement to serve as a basis for calculating pensions.

Officers who have transferred jobs, if they do not meet the conditions for pension but quit their jobs, in addition to enjoying the social insurance regime according to regulations, will be entitled to a severance allowance regime paid by the agency or unit receiving salary from the state budget, using cadres, civil servants and public employees at the time of severance.

In which: For each year of service in the army, a subsidy is equal to 1 month's salary of the month immediately preceding the transfer, converted according to the salary regime prescribed at the time of resignation to serve as a basis for calculating the severance allowance; the working time at the agency or unit receiving salary from the state budget for severance allowance is implemented according to the provisions of the law on labor and the law on cadres, civil servants and public employees at the time of resignation;

For cases of transfer to work at agencies and units receiving salaries from the state budget, with a working period in the Army determined by competent authorities as a Lieutenant standard, when retiring, the salary coefficient used as the basis for calculating the average salary as the basis for calculating pensions for the time the Lieutenant standard is transferred to 3.9.

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