Regulations on terminating unemployment benefits from 2026

Lawyer Nguyen Thi Thuy, YouMe Law Firm LLC, replied:

Clause 4, Clause 5, Article 41 of the 2025 Law on Employment (effective from January 1, 2026) stipulates the transfer of place of unemployment, suspension, continuation, termination of unemployment benefits and cancellation of unemployment benefits as follows:

4. Employees who are receiving unemployment benefits will have their unemployment benefits terminated 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.

5. Employees who are terminated from receiving unemployment benefits in cases specified in Points a, b, g, k, l, m and n, Clause 4 of this Article shall have their unemployment insurance payment period reserved as a basis for calculating the unemployment benefit period for the next time, except for cases where the employee's status is not reported as prescribed in Points a, b, g, k, l, m and n, Clause 4 of this Article.

Thus, from January 1, 2026, employees receiving unemployment benefits will have their unemployment benefits terminated if they fall into one of the above cases.