Circular
18/2017/TT-BLDTBXH
Circular 18/2017/TT-BLDTBXH guiding adjustment of pensions, social insurance allowances and monthly allowances specified in Clauses 1, 2, 3 and 8 Article 1 of Decree 76/2017/ND-CP of June 30, 2017
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 | 18/2017/TT-BLDTBXH | In effect | 15/08/2017 | Ministry of Home Affairs | https://phapluat.gov.vn/legal-documents/123387 |
Summary
Circular 18/2017/TT-BLDTBXH, issued by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on 30 June 2017, guides the adjustment of pensions, social insurance allowances, and monthly allowances for the groups specified in clauses 1, 2, 3, and 8 of Article 1 of Government Decree 76/2017/ND-CP. It is one of Vietnam's periodic across-the-board increases to retirement and social insurance benefits and applies to the categories of beneficiaries named in those clauses of the Decree, which include pensioners, recipients of monthly social insurance allowances, certain commune-level officials who have retired, and people receiving monthly working-capacity-loss or labour-accident and occupational-disease allowances. The central calculation is a uniform percentage uplift, and it directly feeds pension and benefit calculations. From 1 July 2017, the…