02/11/2026 04:20 PM

Expanding SI coverage is essential to strengthening social security and protecting workers’ long-term rights amid labour market changes. Effective implementation requires clearly defined target groups, contribution responsibilities and appropriate roadmaps, ensuring feasibility, fairness and sustainability

29/10/2026 04:41 PM

The Ministry of Finance is restructuring the processes of implementing eight (8) administrative procedures to reduce paper-based documents and replace them with interconnected and shared data.

29/10/2026 10:30 AM

On October 28, in Hanoi, the Vietnam Farmers' Union and Vietnam Social Security jointly held a conference to review the implementation of their cooperation agreement for the 2022–2025 period. The meeting also served as a forum to discuss and provide input for refining the draft cooperation agreement for the 2026–2031 period, with the goal of enhancing the effectiveness of outreach and advocacy efforts to encourage The Union members and farmers to participate in voluntary social insurance (SI) and household-based health insurance (HI).

27/10/2026 02:30 PM

Healthcare facilities across Vietnam are expanding infrastructure, strengthening specialised medical capabilities and adopting advanced technologies to improve the quality of services and give people greater access to modern healthcare.

27/10/2026 10:10 AM

To foster a vibrant emulation drive and promote solidarity, initiative and creativity throughout the system, Viet Nam Social Security (VSS) has launched an emulation campaign to accelerate revenue collection, reduce overdue contributions and expand participation in social insurance (SI), unemployment insurance (UI) and health insurance (HI) in the last months of 2026, with the determined to fulfil and exceed the assigned targets and tasks.

23/10/2026 03:07 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C.—OCTOBER 5, 2026—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), today announced that Americans will have access to more reliable, accessible, and actionable information about what their health coverage includes and what they are likely to pay before receiving care under new regulations that strengthen federal healthcare price transparency requirements. The actions taken today to create a more transparent healthcare marketplace also ensure employers can make more informed decisions; researchers can better understand healthcare markets; and innovators can build better tools.

23/10/2026 11:35 AM

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has issued a plan to implement Decision No. 1511/QD-TTg dated August 8, 2026, issued by the Prime Minister on implementing the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).

23/10/2026 09:45 AM

Mental health care for older people should not be the responsibility of families or the health sector alone, but should become a priority in human development policies. This is particularly important as Viet Nam is experiencing rapid population ageing.