Regulations on promotion of military ranks and new salary increases for retired officers

On March 4, the Government Portal reported that the Government has just issued Decree No. 52/2025/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 21/2009/ND-CP dated February 23, 2009 detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army on regimes and policies for officers who stop serving in the army; officers in active service who died or died; officers in active service who are transferred to professional soldiers or defense civil servants.

Decree No. 52/2025/ND-CP amends and supplements the first line of Point a, Clause 2, Article 2 of Decree No. 21/2009/ND-CP stipulating the beneficiaries of the one-time subsidy regime.

According to the new regulations, the subjects entitled to a one -time allowance include: officers who are redundant due to organizational change, or change of organization and payroll according to the decision of the competent authority; Officers who expire their age hold the position of commanding and managing the unit as prescribed in Clause 3, Article 13 of the Law on the Vietnam People's Army Officers, the military no longer needs to arrange and use.

Decree No. 52/2025/ND-CP also supplements Clause 3, Article 2 of Decree No. 21/2009/ND-CP on regimes and policies for retired officers.

Accordingly, when there is a retirement decision, officers who have been promoted to military rank, have had their salary increased by 2/3 of the term or more and are assessed from the level of task completion or higher will be promoted to military rank, have their salary increased (except for cases of promotion to military rank of general).

According to the new regulations, officers transferred to work at state agencies, public service units, political organizations, and socio-political organizations receiving salaries from the state budget are entitled to the following benefits:

Priority is given to arranging jobs suitable for professional, technical and technical fields; training and fostering in necessary professional and technical fields suitable for the assigned work.

Exemption from entrance exams if transferring majors to old agencies or units or transferring majors according to the requirements of a competent state agency.

Priority is given to adding points to the results of the civil service and public employee recruitment exam according to the provisions of law on cadres, civil servants and public employees at the time of the exam.

Officers are arranged and receive salaries according to new job positions, new jobs, and new positions from the effective date of the decision to change jobs.

In case the salary in groups, ranks and ranks is ranked lower than the salary according to the rank of the officer's ranks enjoyed at the time of changing the industry, the salary, seniority allowance and payment - enjoying the social insurance regime at the time of the industry shift in the period of 18 months from the date of decision to transfer the industry effectively and paid by the new agency or unit.

The continued payment of retention salary outside the 18-month period will be considered and decided by the head of the competent authority managing cadres, civil servants and public employees in accordance with the internal salary correlation.

During the retention period, the salary difference in retention will correspondingly decrease when cadres, civil servants and public employees are entitled to a salary increase or are entitled to seniority allowances exceeding the range in the rank or are upgraded; in case of salary increase, the new salary is higher than the salary at the time of industry change, they will be entitled to a new salary.

After the salary retention period, continue to receive seniority allowances at the time of transferring to another industry or are added to calculate seniority allowances in sectors entitled to seniority allowances.