13 cases of unemployment benefits termination from January 2026

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 4, Article 41 of the 2025 Law on Employment (effective from January 1, 2026) stipulates that employees receiving unemployment benefits will be terminated from receiving unemployment benefits if they fall into one of the following cases:

a) Having an employment and being a subject of compulsory social insurance as prescribed in the Law on Social Insurance;

b) Performing military service, the obligation to participate in the People's Public Security, the standing militia;

c) Receive monthly pension;

d) After 02 times of refusal to accept a job introduced by a public employment service organization where the unemployment benefit is being received without a legitimate reason;

d) Failure to implement monthly job search notices as prescribed in Article 40 of this Law for 03 consecutive months;

e) Go abroad to settle;

g) Studying for a period of more than 12 months;

h) Being administratively sanctioned for violations of the law on unemployment insurance;

i) Death;

k) Comply with the decision to apply the measure of sending to compulsory educational institutions or compulsory drug rehabilitation institutions;

l) Declared missing by a court;

m) Temporarily detained; serving a prison sentence;

n) At the request of the employee.

Thus, from January 1, 2026, the above cases will have their unemployment benefits terminated.