On April 1, the Ministry of National Defense's Electronic Information Portal reported that the Department of Policy and Social Affairs (Ministry of National Defense) has researched and drafted a Submission and draft Circular of the Minister of National Defense guiding the implementation of policies and regimes for subjects under the management of the Ministry of National Defense in implementing the organizational arrangement.
Currently, the second draft of the Circular is continuing to seek opinions from organizations and individuals.
Article 10 of the draft Circular states how to calculate the regime for demobilization for officers and professional soldiers working at agencies and units directly affected by the restructuring of the apparatus.
Accordingly, officers and professional soldiers specified in Clause 1, Article 2 of this Circular who are 2 years or more old than the highest service age limit according to the instructions in Point a, Clause 5, Article 5 of this Circular, are not eligible for early retirement and are not eligible for the retirement regime specified in Article 7 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP, when being decided by competent authorities to be reformed, will enjoy the policies and regimes specified in Article 9 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP;
In particular, the one-time subsidy regime for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance (SI) contributions, the one-time subsidy regime for the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions and the job search subsidy are guided for implementation, as follows:
a) One-time subsidy for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions:
b) One-time allowance for the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions:
c) Employment benefits:
The draft Circular gives an example of comrade Le Trung Dung, born in September 1994, who joined the army in September 2014, with the rank of Senior Lieutenant, and the position of Lieutenant Captain. In June 2025, comrade Dung's unit merged with another unit.
According to current regulations, comrade Dung is not eligible for retirement and is not eligible for early retirement benefits as prescribed in Article 7 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP and instructed in Article 5 of this Circular.
In November 2025, comrade Dung was decided by the competent authority to be a reformator (as of the reformator in November 2025, comrade Dung has 11 years and 3 months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions) and is a reformator for the first 12 months from the effective date of the Merger Decision of the competent authority.
According to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 5 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP and the instructions in Clause 3, Article 4 of this Circular, the period of receiving the reformatory allowance for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions of comrade Dung is 60 months.
Suppose the current salary before the time of reform (October 2025) of comrade Dung is VND 15,000,000; in addition to being able to reserve the time of social insurance payment or receiving one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, comrade Dung is entitled to the following regimes:
The one-time subsidy for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions is: VND 15,000,000 x 0.8 months x 60 months = VND 720,000,000.
The one-time allowance for the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions is: VND 15,000,000 x 1.5 months x 11.5 years = VND 258,750,000.
The job search allowance is: 3 months x 15,000,000 VND = 45,000,000 VND.
Thus, the total subsidy that comrade Dung received for reformers was: 1,023,750,000 VND.
