More Retired Teachers Will Receive Additional Allowances from March 15, 2020

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This Decree has supplemented additional beneficiaries entitled to the subsidy policy for retired teachers who have not received the seniority allowance in their pensions as compared to the current regulations in Decision 52/2013/QD-TTg. Specifically, the beneficiaries entitled to additional subsidies from the effective date of this Decree include:

1. Teachers, including educators, lecturers, childcare workers, principals, vice principals, nursery heads, vice nursery heads, directors, deputy directors, department heads, deputy department heads, head of faculties, deputy head of faculties, department heads, deputy department heads, office heads, and vice office heads, who retired while directly teaching, educating, guiding practice, or were waiting to reach the retirement age and maintained the social insurance contribution period to receive pensions between January 1, 1994, and May 31, 2011, at public educational institutions such as preschools; general education institutions; vocational education institutions; higher education institutions; continuing education institutions; academies, schools, and training centers under state agencies, political organizations, and socio-political organizations. (This content had been previously stipulated in Decision 52 but has been amended and supplemented in Decree 14)

2. Teachers who retired while directly teaching, educating, or were waiting to reach the retirement age and maintained the social insurance contribution period to receive pensions between January 1, 1994, and May 31, 2011, at semi-public educational institutions, but were previously transferred from public educational institutions or at semi-public educational institutions converted from public educational institutions by competent authorities and were placed on the salary scale according to the public employee payroll in the education sector. (This is a newly added subject in Decree 14).

3. Teachers involved in teaching and education at public educational institutions who were assigned by competent authorities to work as educational experts abroad, who retired immediately upon returning home after completing the expert assignment. (This is a newly added subject in Decree 14).

4. Retired teachers who participated in teaching at classes organized by Youth Union units or other armed units who have not received support policies from the state for Youth Union members. (This is a newly added subject in Decree 14).

5. Teachers who were soldiers, public security officers, or cryptographic workers and then transferred to teaching and educational work at public educational institutions, who retired as educators or lecturers with a pension including seniority allowances for the armed forces but without seniority allowances for teachers. (This is also a newly added subject in Decree 14).

Thus, from the effective date of this Decree (i.e., from March 15, 2020), more retired teachers will receive additional subsidies.

Also, according to this Decree, the one-time subsidy amount for the above mentioned subjects is calculated as follows:

Subsidy amount = (Monthly pension x 10%) x Number of eligible years

Where:

- Monthly pension is the pension amount enjoyed at the time this Decree comes into effect.

- The number of eligible years is the total time spent directly teaching, educating, and guiding practices at educational institutions, the time spent teaching classes organized by Youth Union units, if not continuous, it will be accumulated, excluding the time already enjoying seniority allowance of the armed forces and seniority allowance of other sectors (if any) in the pension.

- If there are odd months from 3 to 6 months, it will be rounded to half a year; from over 6 months to less than 12 months, it will be rounded to 1 year.

Note:

In case a teacher eligible for the subsidy as stipulated in this Decree but has not been processed and passes away from January 1, 2012, onwards, the legally authorized representative of the deceased's next of kin (including: spouse; biological or adoptive parents, biological or adoptive children of the deceased) shall prepare a dossier and receive the subsidy as per regulations. The authorized representative of the deceased teacher's next of kin is legally responsible for the dossier and the received subsidy amount.

Teachers eligible for the subsidy according to Decision 52 whose dossiers have been accepted by social insurance agencies but have not yet issued decisions on subsidy before the effective date of Decree 14 will receive the subsidy according to this Decree.

Nguyen Trinh

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