How to calculate allowances for officers and soldiers who retire early

The Ministry of National Defense is organizing a consultation on the second draft of the Circular on policies and regimes when reorganizing and streamlining the apparatus in the Army to continue editing and perfecting documents.

In particular, Article 8 of the draft Circular proposes conditions and ways to calculate policies for cases that are not old enough to be re-elected or reappointed; meet the age requirement for re-election or reappointment or are participating in Party committees at all levels of the Party Committee that must end their activities but wish to retire early.

In this case, military officers and professional soldiers eligible for early retirement are entitled to the regimes prescribed in Clause 8, Article 1 of Decree No. 67/2025/ND-CP.

The method of calculating the regimes as proposed by the Ministry of National Defense is as follows:

a) Subsidy regime for the number of years of early retirement and subsidy regime according to the working period with compulsory social insurance (SI) contributions:

The subsidy level for the number of years of early retirement = Current monthly salary multiplied by (x) 5.0, multiplied by (x) for the number of years of early retirement.

The allowance based on the working period with compulsory social insurance contributions is calculated as follows:

- Receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for the first 20 years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions. From the 21st year onwards, for each year of work with compulsory social insurance contributions, a subsidy of 0.5 months of current salary will be granted.

The allowance level according to the working period with compulsory social insurance contributions = Current monthly salary multiplied by (x) 5.0 (for the first 20 years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions), plus (+) 0.5, multiplied by (x) for the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions from the 21st year onwards

- In case of full 15 years or more, there is a compulsory social insurance payment and subject to the entitlement of pension in accordance with the law on social insurance at the time of retirement before age, the 4 -month salary is entitled to the first 15 years of work; From the 16th year onwards, every year the work has compulsory social insurance premium is allowed to provide 0.5 months of salary.

The allowance level according to the working period with compulsory social insurance contributions = Current monthly salary, multiplied by (x) 4.0 (for the first 15 years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions), plus (+) 0.5, multiplied by (x) the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions from the 16th year onwards.

b, One-time pension allowance

Along with the subsidy regime for the number of years of early retirement and the subsidy regime for the working period with compulsory social insurance contributions, military officers and professional soldiers eligible for early retirement according to Article 8 of the draft Circular of the Ministry of National Defense are also entitled to a one-time pension subsidy.

Including a one-time pension subsidy for the number of months of early retirement, implemented according to the formula: one-time pension subsidy = Current monthly salary multiplied by (x) 1.0, multiplied by (x) for the number of months of early retirement.

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