Decree
117/2005/ND-CP
Decree 117/2005/ND-CP on adjusting pensions and social insurance allowances
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Decree | 117/2005/ND-CP | In effect | 01/10/2005 | Ministry of Home Affairs | https://phapluat.gov.vn/legal-documents/17585 |
Summary
Decree 117/2005/ND-CP, issued by the Government on 15 September 2005, adjusts monthly pensions and social-insurance benefits. It is the parent instrument that Circular 26/2005/TT-BLDTBXH later guides, and it is relevant to pension calculations because it sets the indexation factors applied from 1 October 2005. The covered recipients include civil servants, officials, and workers, military, police, and cipher personnel on state-scale pensions; people on combined state-scale and non-state-scale wage histories; recipients of monthly loss-of-working-capacity allowances; rubber workers on monthly allowances; and commune-level cadres on pensions or allowances under earlier decrees. For those already drawing a pension or benefit before 1 October 2005, the decree sets percentage increases on the amount in payment. For retired civil servants, officials, and workers: a 10…