Circular
05/2015/TT-BLDTBXH
Circular 05/2015/TT-BLDTBXH guiding adjustment of pensions, social insurance allowances and monthly allowances under Decree 09/2015/ND-CP of January 22, 2015
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 | 05/2015/TT-BLDTBXH | In effect | 20/03/2015 | Ministry of Home Affairs | https://phapluat.gov.vn/legal-documents/49375 |
Summary
Circular 05/2015/TT-BLDTBXH, issued by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on 2 February 2015, guides the adjustment of pensions, social insurance allowances, and monthly allowances under Government Decree 09/2015/ND-CP. It is one of Vietnam's periodic across-the-board increases to retirement and social insurance benefits, and it directly feeds pension and benefit calculations through a single uplift factor. The Circular covers a wide set of beneficiaries who were already drawing benefits before 1 January 2015: officials, civil servants, workers, and other employees, including those with voluntary social insurance time and people who moved from the Nghe An farmers' social insurance fund under Decision 41/2009/QD-TTg; military personnel, people's police, and cipher staff drawing pensions before 1 January 2015; commune, ward,…