Circular
20/2008/TT-BLDTBXH
Circular 20/2008/TT-BLDTBXH guiding adjustment of pensions, social insurance allowances and monthly allowances for retired commune cadres under Decree 101/2008/ND-CP of September 12, 2008
Ministry of Home Affairs
The ministry for public administration and the civil service: government organisation and staffing, administrative boundaries, local government, salaries, and state records and archives. In 2025 it became the primary successor of the former MOLISA, taking on labour, employment, wages and social-affairs functions.
Document Type | Document Number | Status | Date Effective | Issuing Body | Official Source URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Circular | 20/2008/TT-BLDTBXH | In effect | 11/03/2008 | Ministry of Home Affairs | https://phapluat.gov.vn/legal-documents/123014 |
Summary
Circular 20/2008/TT-BLDTBXH, issued by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on 29 September 2008, guides the adjustment of pensions, social insurance allowances, and monthly allowances under Government Decree 101/2008/ND-CP. It is one of Vietnam's periodic across-the-board increases to retirement and social insurance benefits, and it directly feeds pension and benefit calculations through a single uplift factor. The Circular covers a broad set of recipients: officials, civil servants, workers, and other employees; military personnel, people's police, and cipher staff drawing monthly pensions; commune, ward, and township officials receiving pensions and monthly allowances under earlier Decrees 121/2003/ND-CP and 09/1998/ND-CP; people receiving monthly working-capacity-loss allowances; people receiving monthly allowances under Prime Minister Decision 91/2000/QD-TTg; and rubber workers receiving monthly allowances.…