Contributing opinions to the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Social Insurance, the Department of Home Affairs of Hung Yen province proposed to review and amend regulations related to social pension benefits and monthly survivor's allowances to ensure synchronization.
Meanwhile, the Department of Home Affairs of Ha Tinh province proposed to study adjusting and raising the standard of social pension benefits.
Responding to this proposal, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed to maintain the regulations on the level of social pension benefits as in the Law on Social Insurance No. 41/2024/QH15.
Accordingly, the monthly social pension benefit level is regulated by the Government in accordance with socio-economic development conditions and the capacity of the state budget for each period; and at the same time allows localities to, depending on socio-economic conditions, budget balancing capacity, mobilize social resources to provide additional support for social pension beneficiaries.
In the multi-layered social insurance system, the level of social pension benefits may affect the need to participate in voluntary social insurance, so this benefit level needs to be carefully calculated and considered.
According to the Summary Report on the implementation of the Law on Social Insurance No. 41/2024/QH15 of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the work of resolving social insurance and unemployment insurance regimes for beneficiaries is always carried out promptly, fully, and in accordance with regulations.
Currently, the whole country is implementing social pension benefits for 2.5 million people; the state budget spends nearly 7,000 billion VND.
5 provinces and cities raise the allowance level higher than the level specified in Decree No. 176/2025/ND-CP (Hanoi City and Ho Chi Minh City level 650,000 VND/month, Hai Phong City and Quang Ninh province level 700,000 VND, Tuyen Quang level 530,000 VND).
The increase in social pension benefits has gradually met the social assistance needs of a part of the population in difficult circumstances.
100% of social retirees are issued health insurance cards and are applied a 100% benefit level for medical examination and treatment costs within the scope of benefits of health insurance participants.
