Maternity Benefit Calculator 2026 Vietnam

Katitax · Last updated 16/09/2026

Maternity benefit is a Social Insurance entitlement paid to female employees during pregnancy, childbirth, or miscarriage, and to male employees when their wife gives birth — provided the minimum compulsory social insurance contribution period has been met. Select the correct case below and the tool will show the matching fields and apply the current formula.

Calculate maternity benefit pay

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Case to calculate

Average SI contribution salary, last 6 months before leave (VND/month) Months of compulsory SI contributions in the 12 months before childbirth

Had to stop working to rest during pregnancy on the instruction of a licensed medical facility (lowers the requirement to 3 months)

Which childbirth is this for the mother (counting all currently living children)

From 01/07/2026, giving birth to a second child gives 7 months' leave instead of 6, under the 2025 Population Law's policy encouraging couples to have two children.

Number of children born in this delivery

Basis of calculation: Eligibility — a female employee giving birth must have contributed compulsory social insurance for 6 months or more within the 12 months before childbirth; if she had to stop working to rest during pregnancy on the instruction of a licensed medical facility, only 3 months or more within the 12 months before childbirth is required (Article 50, Law on Social Insurance No. 41/2024/QH15, effective from 01/07/2025). Monthly maternity benefit = 100% of the average monthly SI contribution salary over the 6 months immediately before leave. Childbirth leave duration: 6 months for the first child; 7 months for a second child or later, effective from 01/07/2026 under Population Law No. 113/2025/QH15 (amending Article 139 of the Labour Code); for twins or more, starting from the second child, each additional child adds 1 more month. One-off childbirth allowance = 2 × the reference level per child (Article 58, 2024 Law on Social Insurance). Male paternity leave and prenatal checkups: the daily rate = the monthly benefit divided by 24 days (Article 59.1). Miscarriage/abortion/stillbirth (Article 52); postnatal recovery = 30% of the reference level per day (Article 60.3). The reference level from 01/07/2026 = 2,530,000 VND/month (Decree 161/2026/ND-CP).

Leave duration by case

Case	Leave duration
Prenatal checkup (per visit, max 5/pregnancy)	1 day (2 days if far from a facility or pregnancy-related condition)
Miscarriage/abortion — under 5 weeks	10 days
Miscarriage/abortion — 5 up to under 13 weeks	20 days
Miscarriage/abortion — 13 up to under 22 weeks	40 days
Miscarriage/abortion — 22 weeks or more	50 days
Female — first child	6 months
Female — second child or later (from 01/07/2026)	7 months
Twins or more	+ 1 month / child from the second child onward
Male — normal delivery	5 working days
Male — surgical delivery / premature birth <32 weeks	7 working days
Male — wife delivers twins	10 working days
Male — twins or more requiring surgery	14 working days
Postnatal recovery — 2 or more children born	Up to 10 days
Postnatal recovery — delivery required surgery	Up to 7 days
Postnatal recovery — other cases	Up to 5 days

Source: Law on Social Insurance No. 41/2024/QH15 (Articles 51, 52, 53, 60), Population Law No. 113/2025/QH15 (amending Article 139 of the Labour Code), Decree 161/2026/ND-CP (reference level).

Basic eligibility conditions

Currently participating in compulsory social insurance and falling under one of these cases: a female employee who is pregnant or gives birth; a female surrogate and the intended mother; an employee adopting a child under 6 months old; a female employee fitted with an IUD or undergoing sterilisation; a male employee contributing to social insurance whose wife gives birth.
A female employee giving birth or adopting a child under 6 months old must have contributed social insurance for 6 months or more within the 12 months before the birth or adoption; if she has contributed 12 months or more and had to stop working to rest during pregnancy on medical instruction, only 3 months or more within the 12 months before birth is required.
A male employee has no minimum contribution period to receive the benefit when his wife gives birth, as long as he is participating in compulsory social insurance at the time of the birth.

Scope of this tool: the tool calculates the 5 most common cases above. It does not yet calculate for: a female surrogate/intended mother, adopting a child under 6 months old, contraceptive procedures (IUD, sterilisation), or voluntary social insurance participants (who only receive a fixed one-off maternity allowance, with no paid-leave benefit as under compulsory social insurance). For a second child or later that is also twins or more (combining both rules), there is currently no published official guidance spelling out how to combine them — the tool provisionally adds them directly (7 months + 1 month/child from the second child) and flags this with a separate warning; please confirm with the Social Insurance agency before filing. Similarly, the additional leave for triplets or more requiring surgery in the paternity-leave case also has no clearly published add-on rate in public sources. The actual amount received may differ due to rounding or your specific file — this is an estimate for reference only and does not replace confirmation from the Social Insurance agency.

Maternity Benefit Calculator 2026

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