Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs' proposal for the 2026 New Year holiday plan has been officially agreed upon, according to document No. 12729/VPCP-KGVX of the Government Office, dated December 25.
Accordingly, the official New Year holiday schedule for civil servants and public employees lasts for 4 consecutive days from January 1 (Thursday) to the end of January 4 (Sunday).
Switch from Friday working day (January 2) to Saturday weekly holiday (January 1).
The Ministry of Home Affairs believes that arranging the swap of normal working days and working days off to other days both helps ensure that civil servants and public employees have harmonious and complete holidays, and also helps stimulate tourism demand and social consumption, promoting economic growth...
Due to changes in the Gregorian New Year holiday schedule, it may lead to changes in the pension and social insurance allowance payment schedule.
Because in the past time, Vietnam Social Security has directed the Social Security agencies of provinces and cities to directly transfer money to pay monthly pensions and social insurance allowances through personal accounts to beneficiaries on the first and second working days of the month.
If the first and second working days of the month coincide with a holiday - the payment schedule will start from the first and second working days after the holiday. For those who receive pensions and social insurance allowances in cash, the social insurance agency coordinates with the Post Office to pay after the payment date via personal account.
According to document No. 1343/BHXH-TCKT on the payment of pensions and social insurance allowances from the payment period of July 2025 of Vietnam Social Security, the schedule for paying pensions and social insurance allowances to beneficiaries in Hanoi City starts on the second working day of the month.
However, the second working day of January 2026 coincides with the Saturday (January 3), so it is possible that Hanoi City Social Insurance will not pay pensions and social insurance allowances through personal accounts to beneficiaries. And the payment of pensions and social insurance allowances to beneficiaries through accounts will take place on January 6.
As for other provinces and cities, in previous months, the social insurance agency paid pensions and social insurance allowances to beneficiaries on the first working day of the month, but January 2026 will be moved to January 5 (lunar).
It is known that the total number of people in Hanoi who have received pensions and social insurance allowances in December 2025 is over 606.340 cases with a total amount of over 4,213 billion VND. In which, the number of people receiving through personal accounts is 603,505 people (rate of 99.53%) with an amount of over 4,171 billion VND; the number of people receiving in cash at payment points is 2,844 cases (rate of 0.47%) with an amount of over 42.1 billion VND.
Hanoi City Social Insurance has also made some notes on authorization to receive pensions according to the 2024 Social Insurance Law.
Accordingly, in order for the monthly pension and social insurance allowance payment to continue to take place smoothly, ensuring smooth benefits for beneficiaries when operating the local government at 2 levels and in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Social Insurance No. 41/2024/QH15 (Law on Social Insurance 2024) effective from July 1, 2025, beneficiaries need to pay attention to some changes regarding the authorization to receive pensions and social insurance allowances as follows:
Regarding the authorization to receive pensions and social insurance allowances: For cases of authorization to receive pensions, social insurance allowances and other regimes, the authorization document is valid for a maximum of 12 months from the date of establishment of the authorization; The authorization document must be certified in accordance with the provisions of law on certification. “For the Authorization Certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 58/2014/QH13 (Law on Social Insurance 2014), it shall be implemented until the end of June 30, 2026. After July 1, 2026, the beneficiary must re-establish the authorization or carry out procedures for certification in accordance with regulations in a timely manner to avoid interruption in receiving monthly pensions and social insurance allowances.
Periodically every year, people enjoying social insurance benefits through personal accounts opened at banks are responsible for coordinating with the social insurance agency or service organization authorized by the social insurance agency to verify information that meets the conditions for enjoying social insurance benefits according to regulations.
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