Early retirement due to downsizing can receive two benefits

Officials and civil servants who retire early due to staff reduction will not have their pension rate deducted and can receive two allowances based on the number of years of early retirement and length of service.

Civil servants working at the Da Nang City Administrative Center, May 2025. Photo: Nguyen Dong

Decree 154/2025 has just been issued by the Government , regulating subsidies for cadres, civil servants and employees subject to staff streamlining.

People who retire early, if they have 2 to 5 years left to reach retirement age, have enough time to pay social insurance to receive pension, of which 15 years are doing heavy, toxic, dangerous or especially heavy, toxic, dangerous work, or in areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions (including working time in places with regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 before January 1, 2021), in addition to the pension regime according to social insurance regulations, will not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement. These people will receive 5 months of current salary for each year of early retirement.

The allowance based on the working time with social insurance contributions is calculated on the basis that people with 20 years of work will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for the first 20 years; from the 21st year onwards, they will receive a subsidy of 0.5 months of current salary each year. People with 15 to less than 20 years of work will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary.

People who have 2 to 5 years left until retirement age and have enough time to pay social insurance to receive pension, in addition to the pension regime, will not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement. They will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for each year of early retirement.

The allowance is based on the length of service. For those with 20 years or more, the first 20 years will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary; from the 21st year onwards, 0.5 months of current salary will be paid each year. Those with 15 to 20 years of service will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary.

People who are less than 2 years from retirement age, have enough working time with social insurance to receive pension, of which 15 years are working in heavy, toxic, dangerous jobs, or especially heavy, toxic, dangerous jobs, or in especially difficult areas, will receive pension benefits according to social insurance regulations and will not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement.

People who are less than 2 years from retirement age and have enough working time to receive pension will receive pension benefits according to social insurance regulations and will not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement.

People who transfer to work at organizations that do not receive regular funding from the state budget will be subsidized 3 months of current salary; 5 months of current salary for each year of work with social insurance contributions. This policy does not apply to people who have worked at public service units when they transfer to ensure regular expenditure or both regular expenditure and investment expenditure or in equitized enterprises who are still retained to work.

Officials, civil servants, and public employees who are subject to staff reduction, have 3 years or less left until retirement age, and have enough time to pay compulsory social insurance, of which 15 years are spent in arduous, toxic, dangerous, or especially arduous, toxic, dangerous occupations, or in particularly difficult areas; those who have 3 years left until retirement age, are also not entitled to the policy of transferring to work at an organization that does not receive regular funding from the state budget.

People who immediately quit their jobs due to staff reduction but have not reached retirement age and are not eligible for early retirement policy will be subsidized 3 months of current salary to find a job; 1.5 months of current salary for each year of work paying social insurance. They will also be able to reserve their social insurance payment time or receive a one-time social insurance payment.

People under 45 years old , with good health, sense of responsibility, sense of organization and discipline but taking on unsuitable work, wishing to quit their job, will be given the opportunity to learn a trade before being terminated. They will also receive their full current salary and have their social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance paid by the unit during the apprenticeship period, up to 6 months.

This group is also entitled to a maximum vocational training allowance of 6 months of their current salary. Upon completion of the vocational training course, they are entitled to an additional 3 months of their current salary to find a job. In addition, they are entitled to a 0.5 month of their current salary for each year of work and to reserve their social insurance payment period.

HA (according to Vietnamnet)

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