GUIDING THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE BASIC WAGE LEVEL
On August 02, 2013, the Ministry of Finance issues the Circular No. 104/2013/TT-BTC guiding the determination of demand, sources and methods of funding the adjustment of the basic wage level under the Decree No. 66/2013/ND-CP dated June 27, 2013 of the Government, and the adjustment of allowances for retired communal officials under the Decree No. 73/2013/ND-CP dated July 15, 2013 of the Government.
In accordance with this Circular, Ministries, agencies at the central level, provinces, centrally run cities shall direct and guide units that the expenditure source is higher than the expenditure demand to use the sources to pay the increased wage for cadres, public servants, the increased redundancy for retired cadres at the communal level and the increased allowance for part time cadres in communes, hamlet, residential group and vets at the communal level as stipulated. Provinces, centrally run cities actively use the increased revenues of local budget, using 10% of saved regular expenditures to provide additional expenditure source for estimation units at the same level that funding is still insufficient. Besides, for provinces, centrally run cities Based on the report on the demand and source of expenditure of provinces, centrally run cities, the Ministry of Finance shall consider and make the notification on providing additional fund for localities to have sufficient fund to implement.
Besides, during the time of waiting for the approval of providing additional fund from relevant authorities, higher-level budget units shall make pre-payment for lower-level budget unit that funding is not sufficient; for localities that meet difficulties on sources report in writing to the Ministry of Finance on making pre-payment for localities; units using the budget shall actively use the 2013 budget estimation that are assigned and the revenue source shall be retained according to the regime to promptly pay the wage, allowances, increased redundancy for cadres, public servants in armed forces and other subjects. The prepaid amount and used amount shall be refunded the source that is equal to the additional amount for the wage, allowance, and increased redundancy payment of relevant authorities.
This Circular takes effect on September 20, 2013.
