Decree
175/1999/ND-CP
Decree 175/1999/ND-CP on adjusting the minimum wage, allowances and living stipends for persons receiving salaries, allowances, benefits and stipends from the State budget
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Ministry of Finance
Vietnam's central finance ministry: the state budget, taxation, customs, the state treasury, public debt, state reserves, and accounting and pricing policy. In the 2025 reorganisation it absorbed the former Ministry of Planning and Investment, adding national development planning, public investment and statistics.
Document Type | Document Number | Status | Date Effective | Issuing Body | Official Source URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Decree | 175/1999/ND-CP | In effect | 01/01/2000 | Ministry of Finance | https://phapluat.gov.vn/legal-documents/6532 |
Summary
Decree 175/1999/ND-CP, issued by the Government on 15 December 1999, adjusts the minimum wage, allowances, and living-cost stipends for people whose pay, allowances, or stipends come from the state budget. It took effect on 1 January 2000, with eligible amounts paid retroactively from that date. The calculation-relevant core is the increase in the minimum wage: from 1 January 2000, the minimum wage rises from 144,000 dong per month, as set by Decree 06/CP of 21 January 1997, to 180,000 dong per month, applied to those drawing salary and allowances from the state budget. Because so many state-sector entitlements, deductions, and contribution bases are expressed as multiples of the minimum wage, this increase flows through to the related amounts: the…