December 19, 2024
VIENTIANE – The government will increase allowances and introduce other policies to support civil servants, soldiers, the police, retired and disabled employees in Laos as part of efforts to counter the rising cost of living and ease people’s hardship.
Prior to the implementation of these policies in January, the Ministry of Finance, on behalf of the government, issued instructions on December 13 outlining the changes.
The ministry advised the relevant sectors to continue to implement the index and index structure as implemented in the past in the value of 7,350 kip/index throughout the state salary system.
Similarly, the ministry will also implement a policy to support employees and civil servants, retired employees and disabled employees whose minimum basic salary is less than 1,700,000 kip. In these cases, the government will provide additional support.
In addition, another 150,000 kip/person/month living allowance will be provided (increased for the 3rd time) including the previous two living allowances amounting to 450,000 kip/person/month for civil servants (permanent employees, 95 percent of new employees, employees going to further study domestically and abroad according to the government’s policy).
Teachers, soldiers, the police, retired employees, and five goals in the public sector for social security system are basic disability, retirement, family members, legal guardians and special disability guardians to act uniformly throughout the country.
Meanwhile, the government will increase the allowances for various administrative and technical positions of civil servants by combining individual fuel allowances, telephone allowances (type 1, 2 and 3 positions) and the cost of buying books, pens, pencils, rulers, and other items for personal use that were previously covered by administrative expenses.
These will be combined into a single allowance to be paid out in the new salary structure.
For example, persons employed in administrative position category 1 will get 1,200,000 kip/person/month; administrative type 2 will get 1,000,000 kip/person/month, and administrative position type 3 will get 850,000 kip/person/month, while those in technical positions will get 200,000 kip/person/month.
For the implementation of allowances for military positions, the police should continue to follow existing rates.
In terms of improving tenure allowances, the implementation of allowances for civil servants, soldiers, police, retired, disabled, retired and family members of all periods of the year are detailed below.
An employee who has worked for 1 to 5 years will receive an increase from 2,500 kip to 5,000 kip/1-year; a person with six to 15 years of employment will get 10,000 kip/1 year, up from 5,000 kip per year, and a person with a working period of 16 to 25 years will get 15,000 kip/1 year, up from 7,500 kip a year.
In addition, government employees who have held their post for up to 26 years will receive a total of 20,000 kip/year, up from 10,000 kip a year.
The government will also increase child benefits for civil servants, soldiers, police, retired and re-retired employees from 37,240 kip/person/month to 100,000 kip/person/month and the policy on the wives of civil servants, soldiers and police will see an increase to 100,000 kip/person/month, up from 29,400 kip/person/month.
Correspondingly, the professional allowance for members of the military and police force will rise from 15 to 30 percent of the basic salary based on ranking.
The Ministry of Finance advised that subsidies and policies that have not been updated in these guidelines should continue to be implemented in accordance with guideline No. 2924/MoF, dated October 19, 2012, and other legislation.
The instruction, which was signed by the Minister of Finance, called on line ministers, heads of equivalent ministries, the Mayor of Vientiane, provincial governors, the finance sector and all relevant sectors across the country to carry out the new changes.
Any problems that arise should be reported to the Ministry of Finance, after the instruction takes effect on January 1.