Implementing the Prime Minister's Official Dispatch and the direction of the Ministry of Finance, on April 21, 2025, Vietnam Social Security issued Official Letter No. 534/BHXH-TCKT to Vietnam Post Corporation, Social Insurance of regions, Social Insurance of provinces and centrally run cities (VHXH of provinces) on the payment of pensions and social insurance benefits for May 2025.
Accordingly, more than 3.3 million beneficiaries nationwide will receive monthly pensions and social insurance benefits from April 25 to April 28, 2025, earlier than usual.
Vietnam Social Insurance requires social insurance agencies in regions and provincial social insurance agencies to focus on paying pensions and social insurance benefits for the May 2025 payment period, ensuring full, timely, in accordance with regulations, and to the right beneficiaries, specifically as follows:
Regarding cash payment: Coordinate with the post office to review and develop a payment schedule, ensuring the organization of payment to pensioners and social insurance beneficiaries in May 2025 for beneficiaries from April 25 to April 28, 2025.
At the same time, arrange and assign appropriately the working departments to make a list and transfer funds to the post office in a timely manner, to be completed before April 24, 2025.
Regarding payment via personal account: Proactively establish, control, and approve electronic payment orders, complete by April 24, 2025 at the latest. At the provincial Social Insurance, it has not yet operated according to the model of the payment area on April 25, 2025; the social insurance of the payment area on April 26, 2025.
Strengthen inspection and supervision of payment processes, coordination, resolution, and final handling of arising situations, promptly reflecting problems in the implementation process. Timely report the results of the implementation of the organization of pension and social insurance allowance payment in May 2025 to Vietnam Social Insurance before April 29, 2025.
In addition, Vietnam Social Insurance also recommends that Vietnam Post Corporation: coordinate to fully prepare payment conditions and notify beneficiaries about the pension and subsidy payment schedule for the May 2025 payment period.
Thus, the payment, including the beneficiary receiving cash and receiving through personal accounts of the May 2025 payment period, will be made earlier than the monthly schedule and completed before the April 30 and May 2025 holidays.
The early payment of social security policies creates conditions for beneficiaries to happily celebrate the 50th anniversary of National Reunification Day and stimulate consumption in accordance with the direction of the Prime Minister.
Previously, in order to create conditions for people and workers to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025), while implementing social security policies and stimulating consumption, the Prime Minister issued a telegram directing the Ministry of Finance and Vietnam Social Insurance to pay early May pensions and allowances for the period from April 25 to 28.
Currently, the entire Vietnam Social Insurance system pays monthly pensions and social insurance benefits to more than 3.3 million beneficiaries (of which, the Social Insurance agency directly pays through personal accounts to 70% of beneficiaries nationwide). Otherwise, beneficiaries can receive money through other flexible payment methods such as: cash at payment points or payment at home (for cases of old age, loneliness, illness, disease and inability to come to the payment point).
Identifying the work of serving beneficiaries as one of the key tasks, in recent times, Vietnam Social Insurance has proactively focused all resources with the advantages of information technology systems, available database sources, and a team of dedicated and responsible civil servants, public employees and workers who have continuously reformed administrative procedures, ensuring full, accurate, earliest and most timely payment of pensions and social insurance benefits to beneficiaries.
