01/07/2025 03:08 PM
VSS: Committed to serving the people under the two-tier local government model
Beginning today, July 1st, 2025, the regulations on the two-tier local government model in the fields of Social Insurance (SI) and Health Insurance (HI) officially take effect. VSS is ready for deployment of these regulations, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted service delivery and the rights and benefits of participants and beneficiaries.
01/07/2025 10:46 AM
ILO brief highlights global five-month gender gap in paid parental leaves
ILO study, marking 25 years of the ILO Maternity Protection Convention, shows that more equitable, inclusive and sustainable parental leaves would require, on average, an additional annual investment of 0.13% of GDP.
01/07/2025 09:53 AM
[Infographic] Viet Nam to implement two-tier local government model from July 1, 2025
Viet Nam will officially adopt a two-tier local government structure nationwide, starting July 1, 2025, comprising the provincial and commune levels. Under the new model, the country will be organised into 34 provinces and centrally-run cities, along with 3,321 commune-level administrative units.
30/06/2025 02:33 PM
PM chairs national conference on new rural development, sustainable poverty reduction
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presided over a national online conference on June 22 to review the national target programs on building new-style rural areas and sustainable poverty reduction.
30/06/2025 02:23 PM
The 2024 Social Insurance Law: Expansion and clarification of Mandatory Social Insurance Subjects
The 2024 Social Insurance Law shall take effect from July 1st 2025, introducing important changes. One of the key updates is the expansion and clarification of the subject to mandatory social insurance (SI) participation.
27/06/2025 03:50 PM
Good practices at provincial levels to boost SI and HI participation
To expand social insurance (SI) and health insurance (HI) coverage and improve service quality, various initiatives have been widely implemented at the provincial level of VSS system.
26/06/2025 04:06 PM
Trà Vinh advances vocational training for rural labourers
Trà Vinh Province is stepping up vocational training for rural labourers to improve the quality of the workforce, promote agricultural restructuring, and build sustainable new rural areas.
25/06/2025 04:45 PM
Improving Inspection to Support Contribution Collection Effectiveness
Under the drastic and unified leadership across the entire system, VSS continuously innovated, fostered information technology application in inspection and examination work. Therefore, contribution collection achieved outstanding results, the rate of late payments for social, health and unemployment insurance gradually decreased from 3.67% in 2021 to 2.59% in 2024.
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