Ms. Nguyen Thi Cam (character name changed), working at a secondary school in Ca Mau province, requested the Ministry of Home Affairs to guide the implementation of the severance allowance regime according to Decree 154/2025/ND-CP (Decree 154).
According to Ms. Cam, the specific case is that the teacher born on February 22, 1971 applied for early retirement, expected to enjoy benefits under Decree 154 from September 2026, when she reaches the age of 55 and 6 months.
Based on Clause 2, Article 6 of Decree 154 and Appendix I of Decree 135/2020/ND-CP, the retirement age for female workers in 2026 is 57 years old. Thus, the remaining time compared to this person's retirement age is about 1 year and 6 months.
From the above reality, Ms. Cam requested the Ministry of Home Affairs to clarify whether this case is eligible for early retirement according to the provisions of Decree 154 or not, so that the school has a basis to carry out dossiers according to regulations.
Regarding Ms. Cam's feedback and recommendations, the Ministry of Home Affairs has responded on the Electronic Information Portal.
According to the provisions of Article 14 of Decree No. 154, for the Provincial People's Committee: Directing the implementation of payroll streamlining according to the provisions of this Decree; Directing and guiding the heads of agencies, organizations, and units under their management to develop annual payroll streamlining plans; compiling a list of payroll streamlining subjects and cost estimates for payroll streamlining in accordance with regulations;
Direct the Department of Home Affairs to appraise the list of personnel streamlining subjects of agencies, organizations, and units under their management;
Direct the Department of Finance to appraise the cost estimate for streamlining staff of agencies, organizations, and units under its management; submit to competent authorities to allocate funds from the annual state budget expenditure estimate to implement policy payments for streamlined staff subjects according to regulations;
Annually, based on the situation of implementing the staff streamlining policy, and the expected plan to implement staff streamlining in the following year, direct the Department of Finance to develop a cost estimate for implementing the staff streamlining policy for general synthesis into the needs of implementing salary reform in the state budget estimate of the following year of the locality;
Periodically before February 15 every year, summarize the results and evaluate the situation of staff streamlining in the immediately preceding year under management and send them to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Finance for synthesis to report to the Prime Minister.
For the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee: Approving the list of subjects for streamlining staff and funding for implementing streamlining staff of agencies, organizations, and units under management; and at the same time being responsible for this approval decision;
In case payroll streamlining is not carried out in accordance with regulations, it is necessary to recover and remit to the budget the costs of payroll streamlining, revoke decisions on resolving payroll streamlining and arrange for people not subject to payroll streamlining to return to work; at the same time, consider handling the responsibilities of relevant agencies, organizations, units, and individuals who are responsible according to the provisions of law for improperly implementing regulations on payroll streamlining.
Therefore, it is requested that you base on the above regulations to send dossiers and recommendations to competent authorities in the locality for consideration and resolution" - the Ministry of Home Affairs informed.
