According to Decision 863/QD-BNV in 2025, pension applications for compulsory social insurance participants with reduced working capacity include:
+ Social insurance book;
+ Original or copy of the document determining the termination of the labor contract or the termination document or the request of the subject:
(i) Employees working abroad under contracts as prescribed in the Law on Vietnamese Employees Working Abroad under contracts 2020, except in cases where there are international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member with other provisions.
(ii) A wife or husband who does not receive a salary from the state budget and is sent to work for a term with a member of a representative agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam abroad is entitled to a living allowance.
(iii) Business owners of business households with business registration pay taxes according to the declaration method.
(iv) Enterprise managers, controllers, state capital representatives, enterprise capital representatives as prescribed by law; members of the Board of Directors, General Directors, Directors, members of the Control Board or controllers and other management positions elected by cooperatives and cooperative unions as prescribed by the 2023 Cooperative Law do not receive salaries.
+ Minutes of assessment of the level of reduced working capacity of the Medical Assessment Council or a copy of the certificate of severe or extremely severe disability can show the conclusion of the Medical Assessment Council clearly stating the percentage of reduced working capacity.
