Therefore, this activity will be increasingly implemented by all parties in 2024 and in the following years, with a focus on thoroughly handling violations.

Many detected violations

In the first two months of 2024, Hanoi Social Insurance and related units conducted 496 inspections and examination, thereby discovering many violations... In which, the City Social Insurance announced Conclusion No. 933/ KL-Social Insurance dated March 5, 2024, requested Vietnam CNC Mechanical and Trading Joint Stock Company (Duyen Thai commune, Thuong Tin district) to urgently correct violations of social insurance payment and contribution, and resolve sickness benefits, maternity regimes... Currently, this unit has paid more than 200 million VND in late social insurance payments.

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Similarly, in Conclusion No. 822/KL-BHXH dated February 26, 2024 for Song Da Construction Consulting Company Limited - UCRIN (Thanh Xuan Nam ward, Thanh Xuan district), the city social insurance agency also clearly pointed out violations and requested the unit to immediately transfer more than 600 million VND to the collection account of the social insurance agency due to not paying social insurance for a number of months...

In addition to the above evidence, in the first two months of this year, after the inspection, city authorities recovered nearly 40 billion VND due to slow implementation of related policies. Deputy Director of Hanoi Social Insurance Vu Duc Thuat said: "The effectiveness of inspection and examination is more clearly recognized through the serious compliance with the provisions of law on social insurance by the majority of workers, employers; Gradually reduce the rate of late payment and closed debt.

Not only Hanoi, other provinces and cities also determined that inspection and examination is a key measure to bring the policy and legal system on social insurance into life on the right "track". During the period 2016-2023, the whole country organized 115,791 inspections and checks at 179,415 units and businesses, thereby detecting and recommending the collection of VND 23,790 billion from fund sources due to late payment and debt. Social insurance... From the results of inspection and examination, the social insurance sector advises and issues more than 5,000 decisions to sanction administrative violations; sent more than 400 prosecution petitions to the investigation agency for serious violations.

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Focus on improving the efficiency of inspection and examination

Currently, there is still a situation where some businesses deliberately circumvent the law. For example, support regimes (gasoline, telephone, transportation, housing costs...) do not have a ceiling, so some units divide the salary budget into smaller amounts, pushing workers' income into different supporting expenses in order to reduce the amount of money used as a basis for monthly social insurance payments, causing disadvantages for many parties. Leading to a situation where, upon discovery, the social insurance agency does not have enough grounds to sanction administrative violations or recommend prosecution...

Proactively overcoming difficulties and improving the efficiency of detecting and handling violations, Vietnam Social Security focuses on building a professional inspection team. This force currently has nearly 600 peoples, operating smoothly from central to grassroots level. Accordingly, in 2024, Vietnam Social Insurance will conduct inspections and examinations of social insurance and health insurance in many localities. In addition, 63/63 provinces and cities also conducted inspections and checks at units showing signs of violations. During this process, the social insurance industry uses a set of electronic identification criteria, including 121 signs, to compare, screen, and detect unusual details and data...

At the grassroots level, before announcing the inspection decision, localities should pay attention to urging and reminding employers to strictly implement the provisions of the law on labor and social insurance with the spirit of listening and understanding. “All activities are for the goal of bringing policies to the right people, beneficiaries, preventing profiteering, and reducing misconduct. Therefore, we flexibly combine reason and emotion to make the inspection happen smoothly and effectively," said Director of Hoang Mai District Social Insurance Tran Viet Trang.

In the long term, the authorities will solve problems by proposing to amend and supplement a number of regulations related to handling violations of social insurance so that they are consistent among legal documents, serving as a basis for social insurance violations. Let relevant parties implement it. It is also a solution to protect the legitimate rights of workers; ensure the safe and stable development of welfare funds./.