Salary expenses not included in the scope of regular spending savings in 2025

The Government stipulates that one of the contents that cannot be used to save regular expenses is salary expenses, which are of a salary nature, and expenses for people.

The Government requires not to save on salary expenses of a salary nature.

Notably, in the resolution, the Government stipulates 4 contents that do not implement spending savings.

One is payroll expenses, of a salary nature, and human expenses.

Including: 10% savings for salary reform in the 2025 budget has been assigned by competent authorities according to regulations.

Salary expenses, of a salary nature and expenses for people, bonus expenses according to Decree No. 73/2024 of the Government stipulating basic salary levels and bonus regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces.

Expenses for implementing social security policies decided by competent authorities; expenses for people according to the regime (expenses for streamlining payroll; scholarships, regimes, policies for students; expenses to support people in difficulty; food expenses, bonuses according to prescribed regimes, expenses for hiring experts, wages and other expenses for people; specific allowances for each industry, including in cash and in kind; expenses for compensation for tuition exemption and reduction according to prescribed regimes; royalties fund, literary and artistic awards...).

Two is Expenditures according to international commitments: expenditures from foreign capital sources; counterpart funds to implement ODA projects; annual fee payments; costs for implementing conciliation agreements, judgments, and decisions of international arbitration.

Three is Funds for implementing tasks completed before the date the Government issued this resolution; funds for implementing procurement and repair tasks, and bidding packages for which bidding documents were issued before the date the Government issued this resolution and continued to be implemented in 2025.

Four is Funding for certain important, specific political and professional tasks will not be cut.

Specifically: budget for National Assembly sessions, activities of the National Assembly Standing Committee and National Assembly delegations; budget for propaganda and press work serving National Assembly activities; budget to support the development of laws and ordinances; budget to support religious organizations, dignitaries, and religious officials in Vietnam; budget for producing reward objects; budget for People's Council sessions, activities of People's Councils at all levels; budget for organizing Party congresses at all levels.

Operating expenses of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad and other Vietnamese agencies abroad; other national diplomatic activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; expenses to support and protect Vietnamese citizens and legal entities abroad; expenses to serve foreign affairs tasks of leaders of the Party, State, National Assembly, and Government.

Funding for training foreign students in Vietnam and training Vietnamese students abroad under the Agreement; funding for implementing overseas training and development projects according to projects approved by the Prime Minister; Funding for training and development of officials and civil servants;

Funding for implementing tasks of science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation to implement Resolution No. 57 of the Politburo (on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation) and Resolution No. 193/2025 of the National Assembly (on piloting a number of special mechanisms and policies to create breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation).

Funds for activities serving preventive medicine work; funds for activities of directing, guiding, providing professional support, transferring techniques, rotating professional staff from upper-level hospitals to support lower-level hospitals to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment as approved; funds for medical examination, treatment, and care for patients with mental illness, leprosy, and tuberculosis at medical facilities.

Operating expenses for court sessions; expenses for investigation activities, practicing the right to prosecute and supervising judicial activities of the People's Procuracy; appraisal expenses for activities of judicial, inspection and auditing agencies; expenses for conducting mediation and dialogue according to the Law on Mediation and Dialogue at Court; expenses for compensation for damages; expenses for supporting the execution of death sentences...

In the resolution, the Government assigned the Minister of Finance, authorized by the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Government, to submit to the National Assembly the following content to be included in the resolution of the 9th session of the 15th National Assembly: "Save an additional 10% of regular expenditures in the last 7 months of 2025 to supplement investment for the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway line; assign the Government to organize the implementation and report to the National Assembly at the nearest session".

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