Doctors from Hanoi Andrology and Infertility Hospital examine a patient - Illustration: BVCC
According to new regulations, female workers participating in compulsory social insurance will be eligible for additional maternity benefits if they previously had to take time off work to receive infertility treatment.
Female workers only need to pay compulsory social insurance for 6 months or more in the 24 consecutive months before giving birth to be eligible for this regime.
Compared to the old law, this is a policy to support the difficult process of having children for many families. Previously, to enjoy maternity benefits, women had to continuously or cumulatively pay compulsory social insurance for 6 months in the 12 months before giving birth.
However, many women are forced to take long-term leave from work to undergo infertility treatments (such as IVF, IUI, surgery, etc.), causing them to have a "break" in their social insurance payment period and leading to ineligibility for benefits when giving birth.
Now the time frame is calculated more broadly, 24 months instead of 12 months, helping many women with difficult pregnancy journeys still have their rights guaranteed.
The new law also officially recognizes infertility treatment as part of the pregnancy journey and enables women to enjoy full maternity benefits when their baby is born.
However, this new policy only applies to cases of birth from July 1, 2025 onwards, and does not apply retroactively to cases of birth before this time.
To enjoy the regime, employees still need to ensure the minimum condition of having paid 6 months of compulsory social insurance within 24 months before giving birth.
The revised Law on Social Insurance also continues to affirm the role of social security policies in protecting vulnerable workers, especially infertile families, those who want children, and in the context of the increasingly low birth rate in Vietnam.
In addition, the new law also stipulates that maternity leave is counted as social insurance payment period, which is a very important regulation.
In the case of female employees giving birth, employees adopting children under 6 months old, female employees being surrogate mothers when giving birth and female employees using surrogacy, the time off work to enjoy maternity benefits will be counted as the time of compulsory social insurance payment, and the employee and employer do not have to pay social insurance.
For other cases of maternity benefits with a leave of absence of 14 working days or more in a month, this period is also counted as compulsory social insurance payment period without having to pay social insurance. This ensures continuous social insurance benefits for employees.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/phu-nu-dieu-tri-vo-sinh-duoc-mo-rong-quyen-loi-bao-hiem-xa-hoi-20250719143929083.htm
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