Regulations on refunding staff reduction allowances to non-specialized workers

Ms. Pham Thi Hong (name of the character changed) is a non-specialized commune-level worker who has quit her job and is entitled to benefits according to Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP dated June 15, 2025 of the Government regulating staff streamlining.

Currently, she wishes to sign a working contract at the Project Management Board of the commune. She wants to ask, in her case, can she sign a working contract at the Project Management Board? If she signs a working contract here, will she continue to enjoy allowances and regimes according to Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP?

Regarding Ms. Hong's proposal, the Ministry of Home Affairs responded on the Electronic Information Portal.

Clause 6, Article 3 of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP stipulates that the subjects of staff streamlining, if they are elected or re-recruited into agencies, organizations, and units receiving salaries from the state budget within 60 months from the date of staff streamlining, must return the allowance amount.

Accordingly, in case non-specialized workers at the commune level have quit their jobs and enjoy staff streamlining policies according to the provisions of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP, if they are signed labor contracts according to Decree No. 235/2026/ND-CP to work at the project management board under the commune-level People's Committee, they are not required to return the received allowance amount.

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