At the 4th Conference of the Executive Committee of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs for the term 2025-2030 held on July 13, regarding the tasks of the Department of Local Government, Minister of Home Affairs Do Thanh Binh requested to complete the summary report on the arrangement of villages and residential groups.
In which, the report must comprehensively assess the arrangement of non-specialized personnel in communes, villages, and residential groups; the number of people who quit their jobs after arrangement and the implementation of regimes and policies for this group. At the same time, the Minister assigned the Local Government Department to study, advise, and guide the construction of self-management models in the community.
The above requirement is set in the context that from July 1, new villages, hamlets, and residential groups across the country have officially gone into stable and smooth operation.
Along with consolidating the organization, many localities are implementing the settlement of regimes for non-specialized workers.
According to Article 10 of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP, non-specialized workers who quit their jobs due to village and residential group arrangements are entitled to support regimes depending on their working time and the remaining years until retirement age.
People with less than 5 years of service are entitled to a one-time allowance according to their working time, an allowance according to the number of years of service and are supported with an additional 3 months of current allowance to find a job.
People with 5 years or more of service and less than 5 years of retirement age are entitled to allowances for early retirement, allowances according to working time, job search support and are entitled to preserving the compulsory social insurance contribution period.
For people with 5 years or more of service and still 5 years or more until retirement age, the allowance level is calculated according to the working time and the remaining time until retirement age as prescribed.
Dr. Dao Hung - Department of Public Management, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Economics and Law (Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City) - said that in the context of streamlining the apparatus and increasingly high social development requirements, there needs to be a certain trade-off between the goal of streamlining the apparatus and the requirement to ensure operational efficiency. After the merger, the immediate priority is a new system that operates stably and smoothly instead of just focusing on reducing the number of personnel.
From there, experts give some recommendations in the policy implementation process. First of all, there needs to be a transition period of 3-6 months to hand over personnel. In the initial stage after the merger, it is necessary to maintain part of the old personnel to ensure continuous operation, and at the same time create conditions for people to observe, evaluate and choose suitable people.
According to Dr. Dao Hung, it is necessary to minimize the arrangement of personnel according to administrative orders from top to bottom. "The team of village and residential group officials is a bridge between people and the government, the greatest value is people's trust. If arranged too quickly, without time to evaluate and choose, this trust may be affected," he said.
Notably, Dr. Dao Hung believes that it is necessary to study increasing the allowance level for this team from the surplus funds due to mergers and concurrent positions. According to him, the budget savings from reducing focal points and reducing the number of positions should be considered a resource to improve the remuneration regime, thereby creating motivation for forces operating in villages and residential groups after arrangement.
