Decree 93/2006/ND-CP adjusting pensions, social insurance allowances and monthly allowances for retired commune cadres

Decree 93/2006/ND-CP, issued by the Government on 7 September 2006, adjusts pensions, social insurance benefits, and monthly allowances for retired commune-level officials, effective 1 October 2006. It is relevant to pension calculations because it sets tiered percentage increases based on pre-retirement salary coefficients and confirms the averaging period used to compute the pension base. Article 1 lists covered groups: cadres, civil servants, workers, public employees, military, public security, and cipher staff drawing pensions under state pay scales; people with mixed state and non-state pay history; people on working-capacity-loss allowances, including those under Decision 91/2000/QD-TTg; rubber workers on monthly allowances; and commune officials under Decrees 121/2003 and 09/1998. Article 2 sets the core tiered adjustment for those drawing benefits before 1 October 2006. For civilian retirees, the increase on the current pension is 10 percent for the lowest salary bracket (new coefficient below 3.99 under Decree 204/2004), 8 percent for coefficients from 3.99 to below 6.92, 6 percent for coefficients from 6.92 to below 7.64, and 4 percent for coefficients of 7.64 and above; equivalent old-scale and pre-1993 thresholds are listed. For military, public security, and cipher staff, the same 10, 8, 6, and 4 percent tiers apply against their own coefficient bands (new coefficient below 5.60 for 10 percent, 5.60 to below 8.60 for 8 percent, 8.60 to below 9.20 for 6 percent, and 9.20 and above for 4 percent). People on working-capacity-loss allowances, Decision 91/2000 allowances, rubber-worker allowances, and the commune-official groups receive a flat 10 percent increase. Article 3 sets the contribution-base rule: for people on state pay scales who retire or take a one-time social insurance benefit from 1 October 2006 onward, the average monthly salary on which social insurance was paid is computed over the 60 months before leaving work, with earlier coefficients converted to the Decree 204/2004 and 205/2004 scales. Article 4 limits, for mixed-history retirees, the adjustment to the portion of the pension based on state-scale pay, applying earlier adjustment decrees together with this decree's tiers. Article 5 addresses people who stopped work to wait for retirement age, setting the averaging and adjustment rules by the timing of leaving and reaching retirement age. For HAPRI pension calculators, the key parameters are the 4 to 10 percent tiered increases by salary coefficient band and the 60-month averaging period for the pension base.