Early retired military officers receive 3 amounts of financial subsidies
The Ministry of National Defense has just issued Circular 19/2025/TT-BQP on policies and regimes when reorganizing and streamlining the apparatus in the Army.
On April 13, according to the Ministry of National Defense's Electronic Information Portal, the Ministry of National Defense has just issued Circular No. 19/2025/TT-BQP guiding the implementation of policies and regimes for subjects under the management of the Ministry of National Defense in implementing the organizational arrangement.
Accordingly, the Circular officially takes effect from April 11, 2025, the Circular applies to subjects who are officers, professional soldiers, defense workers, defense officials; cadres, civil servants, and public employees holding leadership and management positions; civil servants and public employees not holding leadership and management positions; people working in key organizations under the Government's Government's backbone Committee; contracts receiving salaries from the State budget.
The above subjects will receive 3 allowances including a one-time pension for the number of months of early retirement; allowance for the number of years of early retirement and allowance for the working period with compulsory social insurance.
Regarding the method of calculating the subsidy, in case of early retirement from 2 to 5 years within the first 12 months from the effective date of the decision to reorganize the apparatus by the competent authority, the one-time pension subsidy = current monthly salary x 1.0 x number of months of early retirement.
For retirement from the 13th month onwards from the effective date of the decision to reorganize the apparatus by the competent authority, the one-time retirement allowance = current monthly salary x 0.5 x number of months of early retirement.
The subsidy level for the number of years of early retirement = current monthly salary x 5 x number of months of early retirement.
Policies and allowances for working time with compulsory social insurance contributions are implemented as follows:
Receive pension according to the percentage corresponding to the working period with social insurance payment according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and will not have the pension percentage deducted due to early retirement compared to the prescribed age.
Circular 19/2025/TT-BQP also takes the example of Colonel Tran Van Long, born in May 1971, enlisted in February 1990.
According to current regulations, by the end of May 2029, Mr. Long will be 58 years old, the highest age limit according to the rank of colonel. However, due to the merger, in March 2025, Mr. Long was accepted by superiors for early retirement (no pre-retirement leave), receiving pension from June 1, 2025 (age 54).
Therefore, Mr. Long is eligible for retirement within the first 12 months from the date of the merger decision, the early retirement period is 4 years (48 months) and has 35 years and 4 months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions (35.5 years).
Suppose Mr. Long's pre-retirement salary is 30 million VND, then applying the above regulation, Mr. Long will receive a total amount of more than 2.42 billion VND.
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