Decree
208/2004/ND-CP
Decree 208/2004/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 | 208/2004/ND-CP | In effect | 04/01/2005 | Ministry of Home Affairs | https://phapluat.gov.vn/legal-documents/18653 |
Summary
Decree 208/2004/ND-CP, issued by the Government on 14 December 2004, adjusts monthly pensions and social insurance allowances. It took effect 15 days after publication in the Official Gazette, with benefits applied from 1 October 2004. The Decree covers cadres, civil servants, workers, public employees, the armed forces, and cipher staff drawing monthly pensions under state pay scales; people with mixed careers under both state and non-state pay; recipients of monthly working-capacity-loss allowances, including those under Decision 91/2000/QD-TTg; rubber workers on monthly allowances; and commune-level cadres on monthly allowances under Decree 09/1998/ND-CP and Decree 121/2003/ND-CP. The central adjustment relevant to pension calculation is a 10 percent increase, applied from 1 October 2004 to 30 September 2005, to the current monthly…