Circular
27/2005/TT-BLDTBXH
Circular 27/2005/TT-BLDTBXH guiding the increase of pensions and social insurance allowances under Decree 118/2005/ND-CP of September 15, 2005
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 | 27/2005/TT-BLDTBXH | In effect | 29/10/2005 | Ministry of Home Affairs | https://phapluat.gov.vn/legal-documents/17369 |
Summary
Circular 27/2005/TT-BLDTBXH, issued by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, guides increases in pensions and social insurance allowances under Decree 118/2005/ND-CP dated 15 September 2005, which raised the common minimum salary. The increases apply from 1 October 2005 and the circular took effect 15 days after publication in the Official Gazette. The common minimum salary referenced throughout is 350,000 dong per month. Section I lists beneficiaries: cadres, civil servants, workers, public employees, employees, military personnel, people's police, and cipher workers drawing pensions before 1 October 2005; people on loss-of-working-capacity allowances (including under Decision 91/2000/QD-TTg); rubber workers on monthly allowances; commune-level cadres under Decrees 121/2003/ND-CP and 09/1998/ND-CP drawing pensions or monthly allowances before 1 October 2005; people on work-accident,…