Regulations on the preservation period of records, documents of Vietnam Social Insurance system

05/11/2019 11:50 AM


Vietnam Social Security has just issued Decision No. 1556/QD-BHXH prescribing the duration of preservation of dossiers and documents formed in the operation of Vietnam Social Security system. The decision takes effect from October 25, 2019.

Vietnam Archives Center, Vietnam Social Insurance

Accordingly, the duration of preservation of documents files formed in the operation of the Vietnam social insurance system includes 02 levels:

Permanent preservation: Files and documents of this level are preserved at the Archives agency, then selected to be filed and archived into the History archive when due in accordance with the law on archives. Some records and documents preserved permanently such as: Books and files to keep documents of agencies; Documents about construction of regulations and guidelines on clerical and archival work of branches and agencies; Files on building List of state secrets; Dossier of seal sample of agency or unit; Files for handing over documents to Historical Archives; Files and documents summarizing the regulations of the industry's symbols, organizing the implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies and the laws of the State, speeches, presentations, reports, explanations and answers to interpellations National Assembly, at major events of Industry Leaders, agencies, record numbers of briefings, working manuals of Leaders, Secretaries of Industry Leaders, units, ISO documents of the Industry and units; General, long-term, annual and thematic statistical reports, etc.

Time limited reservation: Files and documents of this level are determined for a specific preservation period and preserved at the Archives agency, until the expiry of the preservation period, they will be reported to the Council and the value of documents will be determined to be considered for further storage or disposal. Files and documents with a preservation period are determined from 5 to 70 years.

The preservation period of records and documents of the Vietnam social insurance system is a list used to determine the preservation period for records and documents formed during the operation of units under the Vietnam Social Insurance system and applied with 21 groups of records and documents./

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