The Policy Department (General Department of Politics, Ministry of National Defense) is organizing a consultation on the draft Circular of the Minister of National Defense guiding the implementation of policies and regimes for officers, professional soldiers, defense workers and civil servants, and those working in secret service who receive salaries as for soldiers (commonly known as subjects in the army) in the implementation of the arrangement and streamlining of the organizational apparatus in the Army according to Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP dated December 31, 2024 of the Government on policies and regimes when implementing the arrangement of the apparatus of the political system.
Article 6 of the draft Circular guides how to calculate the demobilization policy for officers and professional soldiers.
Accordingly, in case of aging 2 years or more compared to the highest service age according to the instructions in Clause 5, Article 4 of this Circular and not eligible for early retirement benefits as prescribed in Article 7 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP and instructions in Article 5 of this Circular; being guided by competent authorities to decide on reformers, they will enjoy the policy prescribed in Article 9 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP; in which, the one-time reformers' allowance for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance (SI) contributions, the one-time allowance regime for the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions and job-hunting allowances are guided for implementation, as follows:
1. How to calculate the allowance:
a) One-time subsidy for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions
Rehabilitants within the first 12 months from the effective date of the merger decision of the competent authority:
Rehabilitation from the 13th month onwards from the effective date of the merger decision of the competent authority:
b) How to calculate one-time allowance for the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions:
c) How to calculate job search benefits:
The draft Circular gives a hypothetical example of the case of comrade Le Trung Dung, born in September 1994, who enlisted in September 2014, with the rank of Senior Lieutenant, Lieutenant Captain position.
In June 2025, comrade Dung's unit merged with another unit. According to regulations, comrade Dung 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 demobilized (as of the time of mobilization in November 2025, comrade Dung has served in the Army for 11 years and 3 months, and has paid compulsory social insurance) and is a demobilized person for the first 12 months (from June 2025, the merger decision of the competent authority takes effect).
Suppose that comrade Dung's current salary month before his discharge (October 2025) is 15,000,000 VND. In addition to being able to reserve the time of social insurance payment or receive 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.
Also according to the draft circular, cases that have received the discharge allowance as prescribed in Article 9 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP and the instructions in Clause 1 of this Article will not receive the discharge allowance regime as prescribed in Decree No. 21/2009/ND-CP dated February 23, 2009; Decree No. 151/2016/ND-CP dated November 11, 2016 and Decree No. 32/2013/ND-CP dated April 16, 2013 of the Government.
