At the 6th session of the 10th term of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council on the morning of December 9, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee submitted a document on amending and supplementing a number of articles of Resolution 27 related to the regulation on additional income payment according to Resolution 98 of the National Assembly on piloting specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, from July 1, all employees of the Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance (VSS) are receiving salaries and public service allowances as civil servants according to Resolution 89/2025/UBTVQH15 and Decision 2002/QD-TTg.
As a unit implementing social security policies, Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance does not have any other source of income other than salary and allowances (salary coefficient 1 and public service allowance 0.25), causing income levels to be limited compared to the workload.
Only 11 cases of civil servants and cases of signing labor contracts to perform some types of support and service work of Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance are entitled to additional income. Meanwhile, about 1,547 civil servants and 30 professional and technical contract workers have not yet received benefits.
Due to the characteristics of Ho Chi Minh City with a large number of records, the work pressure of each civil servant, public employee, and employee of Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance is many times higher than the national average.
This has led to the majority of civil servants having "reduced their minds" because they have not yet enjoyed additional income policies such as the Tax, Treasury, and Statistics agencies (also under the Ministry of Finance such as Vietnam Social Insurance).
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assessed that it is necessary to add social insurance officers to the eligible for additional income, in order to recognize and encourage the contribution of this team. The estimated expenditure is 3 million VND/person/month.
The funding source will be used from the remaining balance of the salary reform fund, after the city has fully ensured the expenditures for salary reform and social security according to regulations. The city also committed to arranging a spending estimate not exceeding 1.8 times the salary scale, rank, position and not exceeding 0.8 times the basic salary fund.
Regarding the proposal to add workers to sign professional and technical contracts of Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee believes that there is no legal basis, so it does not consider paying additional income to this group.
The policy is expected to be applied from January 1, 2026 to civil servants of Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance.
In August 2025, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council passed Resolution 27 regulating additional income payment according to Resolution 98.
The subjects of application include cadres, civil servants, and public employees of Party, State, Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, and public service units; people working under labor contracts in the position of driver serving the leaders of Ho Chi Minh City (equivalent to Minister or higher).
In addition, the policy also applies to full-time National Assembly deputies of the Ho Chi Minh City National Assembly Delegation; part-time workers in communes and wards; civil servants of central agencies stationed in the area (Department of Foreign Affairs, Statistics Office, People's Court, People's Procuracy, Tax Department, Customs Branch...).
