The budget has a surplus of nearly 263,000 billion VND for salary reform but has not been implemented yet.

The Resolution of the 5th session (June 2023) of the National Assembly also requires the Government to focus resources on implementing salary reform and report on the salary policy reform roadmap at the 6th session.

In a report recently sent to the National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) on practicing thrift and combating waste to serve the 26th session of the NASC, Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc said that by the end of 2021, the unused salary reform source from the central budget was about VND 54,517 billion, of which the amount in ministries and branches was nearly VND 82 billion. Localities also had a surplus of VND 208,457 billion for salary reform.

Thus, by the end of 2021, the budget has a surplus of nearly VND 263,000 billion for salary reform but has not been implemented. Regarding the surplus by the end of 2022, the Ministry of Finance said it is urging units to report and will submit it to competent authorities according to regulations.

According to the provisions of Resolution 27 of the Central Committee and Resolution 23 of the National Assembly on the national financial plan and borrowing and repayment of public debt for the 5 years 2021-2025, the Central Committee requested the Government to study and allocate resources for comprehensive salary policy reform, including salary scales, salary tables, coefficients and allowances. This is to ensure that salary is truly a lever to increase labor productivity and efficiency.

Meanwhile, the Resolution of the 5th session (June 2023) of the National Assembly also requires the Government to focus resources on implementing salary reform and report on the salary policy reform roadmap at the 6th session (taking place next October).

Explaining this issue, the Minister of Finance said that this agency is building the state budget framework for 2024, the 3-year budget plan (2024-2026), in which it proposes a roadmap for implementing salary reform according to Resolution 27. This will be the basis for using funds to implement salary reform, that is, determining the amount that has been set aside but not yet used.

The report said that the Ministry of Finance will review, compile statistics and report to the National Assembly on the full unused salary policy reform resources of each ministry, sector and locality as of December 31, 2022 and propose a mechanism to manage and use unused salary policy reform resources for the right purposes and effectively, avoiding loss and waste.

Source