Pension payment schedule for January and February 2025
Social Insurance of provinces and cities have announced the schedule for paying pensions and combined benefits for January and February 2025 in the same payment period before Lunar New Year 2025.
Notice of pension and social insurance benefits payment for January and February 2025
According to Vietnam Social Security, implementing Directive No. 45/CT-TTg dated December 18, 2024 of the Prime Minister, Vietnam Social Security will organize the payment of pensions and social insurance benefits for January and February 2025 as follows:
Vietnam Social Security provides funds to pay pensions and social insurance benefits for January and February 2025 to social insurance agencies of provinces and cities at the same time as pensions and social insurance benefits for January 2025, including beneficiaries receiving in cash and through personal accounts.

Vietnam Social Security requires provincial and municipal Social Security agencies to report to local Party committees and authorities on the plan to implement pension and social insurance benefits payment for January and February 2025 at the same time as pension and social insurance benefits payment for January 2025.
Pay monthly pensions and social insurance benefits via personal accounts for beneficiaries in January and February 2025 at the same payment period as January 2025, ensuring full and timely payment to beneficiaries.
Schedule for payment of 2 months of pension before Lunar New Year 2025 in provinces and cities
In Hanoi, The city's Social Insurance has developed a plan to pay pensions and allowances for January and February 2025 in the same payment period of January for nearly 600,000 people. Hanoi City Social Insurance plans to pay the regime on January 2-3, 2025.

In Ho Chi Minh City, City Social Insurance announces the schedule for paying combined pensions and social insurance benefits for January and February 2025 in two forms:
Payments via personal accounts, pensions and allowances for January 2025 and February 2025 will be transferred to beneficiaries' accounts from January 2, 2025 (because January 1 is New Year's Day).
Transfer pension and allowance payment in the second installment (for cases receiving pension and allowance monthly from December 21 to January 17, 2025) on January 23, 2025.
Ho Chi Minh City Post Office organizes cash payments from January 4, 2025 to February 25, 2025 (except for weekly holidays, holidays, and Tet according to regulations).
In Nam Dinh, pension and allowance payment via personal accounts, Nam Dinh Provincial Social Insurance will implement electronic payment orders from January 2, 2025 for beneficiaries in the whole province.
The provincial Social Insurance cooperates with the provincial Post Office to organize the payment of pensions and allowances in cash at the same period, only paying in January 2025 to beneficiaries. Specifically, from January 5, 2025 to January 8, 2025, payments will only be made at the Post Office's payment points. From January 9, 2025 to February 24, 2025, payments will be made at the Post Offices of districts and Nam Dinh city.
In An Giang, The provincial Social Insurance cooperates with the provincial Post Office to organize the payment of 2 months of pension and allowance through personal accounts on January 3, 2025. Cash payment to beneficiaries from January 4 to 10 at payment points, from January 11 to 24, 2025 at post office transaction points.
In case the beneficiary is elderly, lonely, sick or ill and unable to go to receive pension and social insurance benefits at the payment point, the post office will organize direct payment at the beneficiary's home.
Thus, nearly 3.4 million people will receive pensions and monthly allowances for January and February 2025 before the Lunar New Year; of which more than 2.5 million people will receive payments via bank accounts in the form of transfers; the remaining about 1 million people will receive payments in cash.