Article 12 of Circular 19/2025/TT-BQP issued by the Ministry of National Defense clearly states how to calculate the severance pay policy for workers, civil servants, employees, and people working in key organizations under the Government's backbone Committee working at agencies and units directly affected by the restructuring of the apparatus.
Accordingly, defense workers, defense officials, civil servants, and people working in key organizations under the Government backgrounds Committee, contract workers receiving salaries from the State budget as prescribed in Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Article 2 of this Circular, who are 2 years or more old than the age limit for guidance when implementing the organizational arrangement but do not meet the retirement age requirements and are not eligible for early retirement benefits as prescribed in Article 7 of Decree No. 178/2024ND-CP, when the competent authority decides to resign, will enjoy the policies and regimes prescribed in Article 10 of Decree No. 178/2024ND-CP.
In particular, the severance allowance regime for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance (SI) is guided as follows:
a) severance allowance for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions shall be implemented according to the instructions in Point a, Clause 1, Article 10 of this Circular.
b) One-time allowance for the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions shall be implemented according to the instructions in Point b, Clause 1, Article 10 of this Circular.
Circular 19 of the Ministry of National Defense gives a specific example: The case of comrade Ngo Thi Thu Tra (born in September 1996, recruited as a defense official in September 2016), working at the Provincial Military Command. In June 2025, comrade Tra's unit merged with another unit.
According to current regulations, comrade Tra is not eligible for retirement and is not eligible for early retirement benefits as prescribed in Article 7 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP and instructed in Article 6 of this Circular.
In December 2025, comrade Tra was decided to resign from work by the competent authority (as of the time of resignation in December 2025, comrade Tra has 9 years and 4 months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions, and can complete 9.5 years according to the instructions in Clause 4, Article 5 of this Circular).
Comrade Tra is eligible for termination of employment within the first 12 months from the effective date of the Merger Decision of the competent authority.
According to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 5 of Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP and the instructions in Clause 3, Article 5 of this Circular, the period of receiving severance allowance for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions of female employees in the defense unit is 60 months.
Suppose the current salary before the time of resignation (November 2025) of comrade Tra is 12,000,000 VND, in addition to being able to reserve the time of social insurance payment or receiving one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, comrade Tra is entitled to the following benefits:
- severance allowance for the number of months of work with compulsory social insurance contributions: VND 12,000,000 x 0.8 months x 60 months = VND 576,000,000 million.
- One-time allowance for the number of years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions: VND 12,000,000 x 1.5 months x 9.5 years = VND 171,000,000.
"The total amount of severance pay that comrade Tra received is: 747,000,000 VND" - the Ministry of National Defense informed.
