Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP effective from June 16, 2025, regulating staff streamlining stipulates the subjects, principles, staff streamlining policies and the responsibility for staff streamlining in agencies, organizations, public service units of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front, and socio-political organizations from central to commune levels.
The Decree clearly states that the subjects of the staff streamlining policy include:
Subjects with a remaining age of 2 years to 5 years to the retirement age specified in Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and having enough working time with compulsory social insurance contributions to receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, including 15 years or more working in a job or job with a heavy, toxic, dangerous or especially heavy, toxic, dangerous job on the list issued by a Government agency performing the function of state management of labor or having worked for 15 years or more in an area with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions issued by a Government agency, including working time in a place with a regional allowance of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021, in addition to the social insurance regime, are entitled to: benefits after the provisions of law.
No deduction of pension rate due to early retirement;
Receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for each year of early retirement compared to the retirement age prescribed in Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP;
Receive benefits according to the working period with compulsory social insurance as follows:
For those who have paid compulsory social insurance for 20 years or more, the first 20 years of work with compulsory social insurance will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary; for the remaining years (from the 21st year onwards), each year will be subsidized with 0.5 months of current salary.
For those who have paid compulsory social insurance for 15 years to less than 20 years of work, they will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary.
Subjects with an age of 2 to 5 years to the retirement age specified in Appendix I issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and having enough working time with compulsory social insurance contributions to receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, in addition to receiving pension benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, will also receive the following benefits:
No deduction of pension rate due to early retirement;
Receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for each year of early retirement compared to the retirement age prescribed in Appendix I issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP;
Receive benefits according to the working period with compulsory social insurance as follows:
Those who have paid compulsory social insurance for 20 years or more will receive a subsidy of 05 months of current salary for the first 20 years of work with compulsory social insurance; for the remaining years (from the 21st year onwards), each year will be subsidized with 0.5 months of current salary.
Those who have paid compulsory social insurance for 15 years to less than 20 years of work will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary.
Subjects with less than 2 years of retirement age specified in Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and having enough working time with compulsory social insurance contributions to receive pensions according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, including 15 years of working in a job or job with a heavy, toxic, dangerous or especially heavy, toxic, dangerous work on the list issued by a Government agency performing the function of state management of labor or having 15 years of working in an area with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions issued by a Government agency performing the function of state management of labor, including working time in a place with a regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021, will enjoy the pension regime according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and the pension rate due to no early retirement age.
Those who are less than 2 years old until the retirement age specified in Appendix I issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and have enough working time with compulsory social insurance contributions to receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance will enjoy pension benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and will not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement.
