Mr. Nguyen Van Kieu (name of the character changed) asked about the benefits enjoyed under Decree 154/2025 of the Government when resigning.
He said that he was born in 1985, was appointed Deputy Head of the Commune Police from August 2015. In January 2020, when the locality arranged regular police, he had a decision to be dismissed from the position of Deputy Head of the Commune Police.
The time he participated in compulsory social insurance (BHXH) in this position was 33 months; the remaining time was voluntarily contributed by the agency to social insurance.
From March 2022 to July 2025, he held the position of Vice Chairman of the Commune Veterans Association, receiving a coefficient of 2.34 allowance. During his tenure in this position, he participated in compulsory social insurance through a cooperative.
He said that throughout the process of holding the above 2 positions, when he resigned, he did not receive any resignation benefits. Therefore, he requested to be answered about how his case will be resolved according to Decree 154/2025.
Regarding readers' recommendations, the Ministry of Home Affairs has responded on the Electronic Information Portal.
In Decree No. 154/2025 dated June 15, 2025 of the Government regulating staff streamlining, it has decentralized to the heads of agencies, organizations, units and People's Committees, Provincial People's Committee Chairmen to identify subjects and decide on approving the resolution of staff streamlining.
Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs requests citizens to provide complete information of the individual they need to ask, and send it to local functional agencies and competent persons for answers according to regulations.
According to Lao Dong Newspaper's investigation, Article 9 of Decree 154/2025 clearly states that non-specialized workers at the commune level who have not reached retirement age as prescribed in Appendix I, Appendix II issued together with Decree No. 135/2020 (excluding subjects specified in Clause 2 of this Article) are entitled to the following regimes:
For people who have 5 years or more of service and have less than 5 years of retirement age, they are entitled to the following regimes:
Being entitled to a one-time allowance equal to 0.8 times the current monthly allowance multiplied by the number of months of early retirement compared to the retirement age.
Being entitled to an allowance equal to 1.5 times the current monthly allowance for each year of work.
Being entitled to a 3-month monthly allowance currently enjoyed to find a job.
Being allowed to preserve the time of compulsory social insurance contribution or enjoying one-time social insurance benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
For people with 5 years or more of service and a lifespan of 5 years or more until retirement age, they are entitled to the following regimes:
Being entitled to a one-time allowance equal to 0.8 times the current monthly allowance multiplied by 60 months.
Being entitled to an allowance equal to 1.5 times the current monthly allowance for each year of work.
Being entitled to a 3-month monthly allowance currently enjoyed to find a job.
Being allowed to preserve the time of compulsory social insurance contribution or enjoying one-time social insurance benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
For cases of commune-level officials who are retiring or are over the working age as prescribed, they are not subject to the application of the Decree on streamlining staff.
