Cases where medical staff are entitled to 70% professional preferential allowance

According to Decree 350/2026/ND-CP, officials working in medical expertise at commune-level health stations, preventive health facilities in the remaining areas and some groups who regularly and directly perform specific tasks are entitled to a 70% professional preferential allowance.

Cases eligible for 70% allowance

According to Clause 2, Article 4 of Decree 350/2026/ND-CP, the 70% allowance level applies to medical professionals who are assigned to regularly and directly perform the following tasks:

Examination, treatment, testing, care, nurturing, and assistance for people with particularly severe disabilities; people with leprosy, tuberculosis, group A infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, newborns;

Preserve, look after the corpse;

Working in grade III, grade IV biosafety laboratories;

Examination, testing, and treatment of opioid addiction.

In addition to cases determined by the nature of work, the 70% allowance level is also applied to medical professionals at commune-level health stations, preventive health facilities in the remaining areas; provincial and city disease control centers; provincial and city border health quarantine centers; preventive health institutes.

Meanwhile, the 80% level applies to medical professionals at commune-level health stations, preventive health facilities in border and island areas; in commune areas II (difficult communes), region III (especially difficult communes) ethnic minority and mountainous areas according to the Government's regulations.

Doing many jobs only earns the highest level

According to Article 3 of the Decree, each civil servant and contract worker assigned to many jobs with different levels of professional preferential allowances is only entitled to one highest level of professional preferential allowance.

The level of regularity in performing professional tasks is determined to be at least 50% of normal working hours per month according to the provisions of the Labor Code.

Professional preferential allowances are calculated as a percentage of the current salary coefficient plus leadership position allowance, reserve difference coefficient (if any), seniority allowance beyond the frame (if any) of the beneficiaries.

The allowance is paid on the same monthly salary period and is not used to calculate social insurance contributions and benefits.

For people working under labor contracts at public non-business units under the state management of the health sector, if they are ranked according to the salary scale of public employees prescribed by the State and are directly assigned to perform the tasks mentioned from clauses 1 to 6 of Article 4, they are entitled to professional preferential allowances at the level corresponding to the assigned task.

For employees working under labor contracts who are not in the above case, if they are directly assigned to perform the tasks mentioned from clauses 1 to 6 of Article 4, they shall be implemented according to the agreement in the labor contract.

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