Retirement age of civil servants
According to Article 169 of the 2019 Labor Code, employees who ensure the conditions on social insurance payment period as prescribed are entitled to receive pension when reaching retirement age.
The retirement age of employees in normal working conditions is adjusted according to the roadmap until reaching 62 years old for men in 2028 and 60 years old for women in 2035.
From 2021, the retirement age of employees in normal working conditions is 60 years and 3 months for men and 55 years and 4 months for women; then, each year it increases by 3 months for men and 4 months for women.
Employees with reduced working capacity; working in particularly arduous, toxic, or dangerous occupations or jobs; working in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions may retire at a lower age, but not more than 5 years older than the age prescribed in Clause 2, Article 169 of the 2019 Labor Code at the time of retirement, unless otherwise provided by law.
Employees with high professional and technical qualifications and some special cases may retire at a higher age but not more than 5 years older than the age prescribed in the 2019 Labor Code at the time of retirement, unless otherwise provided by law.
Early retirement policy when streamlining the apparatus
The Government issued Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP dated December 31, 2024, stipulating the regime and policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees, workers and armed forces in implementing the organizational arrangement of the political system.
According to the Head of the Department, Chief of Office of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs Nguyen Quang Dung, the policy for people retiring before the retirement age is clearly stated in Decree 178.
Accordingly, in case of being 10 years or less older than retirement age under normal working conditions and 5 years or less older than retirement age under working conditions in particularly difficult areas and having paid compulsory social insurance for retirement, they will enjoy 3 regimes:
First, receive a one-time pension benefit for early retirement:
In case of leaving within 12 months: If the remaining age is 5 years or less until retirement age, the employee will receive a subsidy equal to 1 month of current salary multiplied by the number of months of early leave. If the remaining age is 5 years to 10 years until retirement age, the employee will receive a subsidy equal to 0.9 month of current salary multiplied by 60 months.
In case of leave from the 13th month onwards, the benefit is equal to 0.5 of the above 12-month leave allowance.
Second, enjoy early retirement policy:
Receive pension and not have pension rate deducted; receive early retirement allowance (people with 2 years to less than 5 years left until retirement age will receive 5 months of current salary for each year of early retirement; people with 5 years to 10 years left until retirement age will receive 4 months of current salary for each year of early retirement); receive allowance based on working time with more than 20 years of compulsory social insurance contributions.
In case of being less than 2 years old to the prescribed retirement age and having enough working time with compulsory social insurance payment to receive pension, they will receive pension according to regulations and will not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement.
Cadres, civil servants and public employees who retire early and are eligible for rewards for their contributions but still lack the working time in a leadership position at the time of retirement will have their early retirement period calculated to correspond to the remaining time of the election term or the appointment period of the current position to be considered for rewards for their contributions.
For cadres, civil servants and public employees who are not eligible for rewards for their contributions, competent authorities will consider forms of rewards appropriate to their achievements.
Recently, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra signed and issued Circular No. 01/2025 guiding the implementation of policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers in the implementation of organizational restructuring of the political system (guidance on the implementation of Decree No. 178/2024 of the Government).
