In 2025, the retirement age for male workers will be 61 years and 3 months, for female workers will be 56 years and 8 months; in 2026, the retirement age for male workers will be 61 years and 6 months, for female workers will be 57 years;...
Adjusting retirement age according to the roadmap
Pursuant to Article 169 of the 2019 Labor Code, employees who ensure the conditions on the period of social insurance payment according to the provisions of the law on social insurance are entitled to receive pensions when they reach retirement age.
Accordingly, the retirement age of employees in normal working conditions is adjusted according to the roadmap until reaching 62 years old for male employees in 2028 and 60 years old for female employees in 2035.
According to Clause 2, Article 4 of Decree 135/2020/ND-CP of the Government, the retirement age of employees in normal working conditions for each year from 2025 will be determined as follows:
The lowest retirement age from 2025 (applicable to certain cases)
Employees in the following cases can retire at a lower age but not more than 5 years compared to the retirement age under normal working conditions at the time of retirement, unless otherwise provided by law:
- Employees who have worked for 15 years or more in a heavy, toxic, dangerous or especially heavy, toxic, dangerous job or job on the list issued by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
- Employees who have worked for 15 years or more in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, including working time in areas with regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021.
- Employees with a working capacity reduction of 61% or more.
- Employees with a total working time in a labor-intensive, toxic, dangerous or especially labor-intensive, toxic, dangerous job or job issued by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and working time in an area with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, including working time in a place with a regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021 for 15 years or more.
The lowest retirement age for employees from 2025 in one of the above cases is implemented according to the table below:
