Surplus personnel will be considered for early retirement benefits
Localities across the country are urgently arranging and merging public schools to streamline the apparatus and improve the quality of education. In the process of implementation, ensuring the rights of subjects affected by policies is particularly concerned. This includes ensuring the rights of cadres, teachers, and workers who are redundant, or wish to retire early.
Regarding the policy of streamlining staff in the process of arranging educational institutions today, the Government has issued Resolution No. 37/2026/NQ-CP on the structure, quantity and some policies for principals, directors, vice principals, deputy directors, and educational support personnel when implementing the arrangement of public preschool, general, continuing education, and vocational education institutions at provincial and commune levels.
According to the regulations in the above documents, when merging schools, principals and vice principals, if they are subject to streamlining, redundant and meet the conditions on age, social insurance contribution time... will be considered for early retirement benefits, enjoy retirement benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and may be entitled to staff streamlining allowances according to Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP if they fully meet the conditions according to regulations.
Cases of early retirement
To be eligible for early retirement, principals, vice principals, teachers, and school staff must meet the conditions specified in Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP of the Government.
The Government stipulates specific policies for 4 groups of early retirees subject to staff streamlining.
The first group is people who are still 2 years old to 5 years old to retire according to the provisions of Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and have enough working time with compulsory social insurance contributions to receive a pension.
This group has 15 years or more of working in heavy, hazardous, dangerous or especially heavy, hazardous, dangerous professions and jobs on the prescribed list or has 15 years or more of working in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, including working time in places with regional allowances with a coefficient of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021.
In addition to enjoying the pension regime according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, the above group also enjoys 3 regimes including: Not being deducted the pension rate due to early retirement; receiving a 5-month allowance for the current salary for each year of early retirement.
Regarding allowances according to the working time with compulsory social insurance contributions, those who have at least 20 years of working with compulsory social insurance contributions or more are entitled to an allowance of 5 months of current salary for the first 20 years of working with compulsory social insurance contributions; for the remaining years (from the 21st year onwards), each year is entitled to an allowance equal to 0.5 months of current salary.
For those who have worked for 15 years to less than 20 years with compulsory social insurance contributions, they are entitled to a 5-month allowance for their current salary.
The second group is people who are still 2 years old to 5 years old to retire and have enough working time with compulsory social insurance contributions to receive a pension.
In addition to enjoying the pension regime according to regulations, principals and vice-principals who streamline staff with the above age are also not subject to pension rate deductions due to early retirement; they are entitled to a 5-month allowance for their current salary for each year of early retirement compared to the retirement age.
Regarding allowances according to the working time with compulsory social insurance contributions, those who have at least 20 years of working with compulsory social insurance contributions or more are entitled to an allowance of 5 months of current salary for the first 20 years of working with compulsory social insurance contributions; for the remaining years (from the 21st year onwards), each year is entitled to an allowance equal to 0.5 months of current salary.
For those who have from 15 years to less than 20 years of working with compulsory social insurance contributions, they are entitled to a 5-month allowance for their current salary.
The third group is subjects who are under 2 years old to retire and have enough working time with compulsory social insurance contributions to receive a pension.
This group has enough 15 years of working in heavy, hazardous, dangerous or especially heavy, hazardous, dangerous professions and jobs on the prescribed list or has enough 15 years of working in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, including the time working in places with regional allowances with a coefficient of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021, they are entitled to pension benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and are not deducted from the pension rate due to early retirement.
The fourth group is subjects who are under 2 years old to retire age and have enough working time with compulsory social insurance contributions to receive pensions according to regulations, they are entitled to pension benefits and are not deducted from the pension rate due to early retirement.
