Over the past time, Hanoi Social Security Office has coordinated with functional agencies and units to strengthen inter-sectoral inspection and examination, urging units and enterprises to strictly comply with the provisions of the law on social insurance. After urging, inspecting and examining, various enterprises with large debts have overcome the entire amount of debt, and employees' benefits are guaranteed.

As of the end of August 2022, the Hanoi Social Security Office is managing 102,440 employers, corresponding to 1,918,904 compulsory social insurance participants. In the context of the recent Covid-19 epidemic, many units and businesses have made great efforts to overcome difficulties to well implement policies on social, health and unemployment insurance. However, there are still a big number of units and enterprises that are slow to pay, evade social insurance contributions or pay insufficiently compared to the number of employees eligible to participate, affecting the legitimate rights and interests of employees.

In order to reduce the debt ratio of social insurance, and ensure the legitimate rights and interests of employees, Hanoi Social Security Office has coordinated with functional agencies and units to strengthen inter-sectoral inspection and examination and urge the units and businesses to strictly comply with the law on social and health insurance.

The Hanoi Social Security Office disseminates social insurance policies to representatives of enterprises in Thang Long Industrial Park.

From the beginning of 2022 until now, Hanoi Social Security Office has carried out 4,850 inspection sessions (including 2,749 planned; 2,101 unexpected visits). After the inspection, the amount of money that the units have paid into the collection account of the social security agency to overcome the payment debt is nearly 391 billion VND, reaching 83%. In addition, the Hanoi Social Security Office organized inspections and unexpected specialized inspections for 3,000 units, collecting nearly 97 billion VND of debt.

Along with the inspection and examination, the Hanoi Social Security Office reviewed the management data and urged the units owing social insurance contributions, of which, 4,631 units have recovered all the debts, 1,232 units have recovered part of the debt, and the total recovered amount is nearly 453 billion dong.

The overcoming of the social insurance debt has ensured thousands of employees at these enterprises to enjoy sickness and maternity benefits.

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Typically, Transport Hospital Joint Stock Company has recovered over 5 billion VND of social insurance debt; followed by that, 83 employees at the company have been settled to enjoy sickness and maternity benefits with the amount of 99 million dong. Another example is Green City Services Trading Investment Joint Stock Company to overcome 2.6 billion dong of social insurance debt; and followed by that, 49 employees were entitled to social insurance benefits with the amount of 127 million dong.

Hoang Thi Thu Hien - Administrative and Human Resources staff of Song Hong Clean Vegetable Joint Stock Company, a unit managed by the Social Security Office of Cau Giay District, said that the company has more than 300 employees, mainly laborers. In order to ensure the benefits for employees, the company pays great attention to the obligation to pay social insurance premiums. Because of difficulties in the settlement between partners, the company could not manage the money source, leading to social insurance debt, after which the company quickly recovered the entire debt of 1.8 billion dong. After overcoming the debt, 110 employees have had their sickness and maternity benefits settled with an amount of over 165 million VND.

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Having been in charge of social insurance in the company for more than 10 years, Hien understands better than anyone the efforts of the social insurance industry in administrative reform and creating favorable conditions for employers.

“The current administrative procedures of the social insurance industry have made very positive strides. It is now much better than the old days. Online transactions have greatly reduced travel time for businesses," said Hien.

In addition, she also highly appreciated the enthusiastic support and responsibility of the social security staff. Whenever the unit has any difficulties, questions are answered clearly and specifically.

Vu Thi Lan - a specialist for administration and human resources of Green City Services Trading Investment Joint Stock Company, a unit paying social insurance premiums in Hoan Kiem district said that as a restaurant business, in the last two years, many branches of the company had to close, leading to financial difficulties and the failure to fulfill the obligation to pay social insurance premiums. The company owes 14 months of social insurance premiums with more than 2.6 billion VND. During the period of social insurance debt, the company receives the support of the social security agency in ensuring the interests of employees.

Immediately after the Covid-19 epidemic was under control, the restaurant was opened, and the company fully paid the debt to pay social insurance premiums, so the social insurance benefits of more than 180 employees of the company were guaranteed. Since overcoming the social insurance debt, 49 employees in the company have been settled with sick and maternity benefits with the amount of 127 million dong.

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With the determination to reduce the debt to pay social insurance contributions and ensure the interests of employees, from now until the end of the year, the city social security agency requires the social security agencies of towns and districts to strictly follow the guidance on strengthening the inspection and handling of VSS' payment debts; at the same time, to proactively advise the People's Committee of the district/town to direct the implementation of the Plan No. 71/KH-UBND dated March 3, 2022 of the City People's Committee on overcoming limitations and shortcomings in the increasing number of social insurance debts pointed out after the 2021 Review Conference. Every month, reports on the results of the implementation of Plan No. 71/KH-UBND shall be sent to leaders of the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities in order to promptly direct the implementation of measures to remedy the situation of social insurance debts in the locality.

Social insurance agencies of districts, towns and cities shall implement the issued decisions on inspection and examination to ensure compliance with the provisions of law. When the inspection and examination conclusions have been issued, they must closely follow the implementation of the conclusions, and regularly urge the units and enterprises to strictly implement the contents of the conclusions.

The Hanoi Social Security Office requires the social security agencies of districts, towns and cities to proactively review the status of units whose debts have existed for 3 months or more in order to summarize and make a list and send it to the Hanoi Social Security Office to issue an inspection decision. Along with that, the activities of Debt Collection Teams under the social security agencies of districts, towns and cities shall be accelerated, requiring collection officers to regularly urge units to pay full social and health insurance premiums for employees, focusing on units with less than 3 months of debt, and not to incur new debts./.