Vietnam’s amendments to regulations on unemployment benefit payout months from February 15, 2024

Vietnam’s amendments to regulations on unemployment benefit payout months from February 15, 2024 

Circular no. 15/2023/TT-BLDTBXH has amended Clause 2 Article 8 of Circular No. 28/2015/TT-BLDTBXH on unemployment benefit payout months as follows: 

Payout months shall follow the Gregorian calendar.  Each payout month shall be determined from the first date on which the employee starts receiving unemployment benefits as prescribed in Clause 3 Article 50 of the Law on Employment 2013 to the preceding date of the same date of the next month. If the following month does not have the corresponding date, the end date of the payout month is the end date of that month. 

Example 4: Mr. Cao Van D is entitled to receive 3-month unemployment benefits, from January 1, 2022 to May 31, 2022. Payout months shall be determined as follows: 

The first payout month is from January 1, 2022 to January 31, 2022; 

The second payout month is from February 1, 2022 to February 28, 2022; 

The third payout month is from March 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022; 

The fourth payout month is from April 1, 2022 to April 30, 2022; 

The fifth payout month is from May 1, 2022 to May 31, 2022; 

(Previously, Clause 2 Article 8 of Circular No. 28/2015/TT-BLDTBXH on payout months according to Clause 4 Article 21 of Decree No. 28/2015/ND-CP stipulated: 

Payout months shall follow the Gregorian calendar.  Each payout month shall be determined from the first date on which the employee starts receiving unemployment benefit as prescribed in Clause 3 Article 50 of the Law on employment to the preceding date of the same date of the next month.

Example 4: Mr. Cao Van D is entitled to receive 3-month unemployment benefit; the payout period of Mr. D is from March 11, 2015 to June 10, 2015. Accordingly, the payout months shall be determined as follows:

The first payout month is from March 11, 2015 to April 10, 2015;

The second payout month is from April 11, 2015 to May 10, 2015;

The third payout month is from May 11, 2015 to June 10, 2015.)

See more details in Circular No. 15/2023/TT-BLDTBXH of the Ministry of Labor - War Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam, effective as of February 15, 2024. 

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