28/02/2018 04:27 PM

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) is aware of the necessity of promoting external information to enhance awareness about and create consensus on international integration while developing effective and sustainable relations with multinational social security organisations in the region and around the world.

28/02/2018 04:16 PM

Leaders of the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) and the Asia-Pacific Investors Cooperation (APIC) met in Hanoi on January 16 to discuss the organisation of the APIC-ASEAN Summit 2018 in Vietnam.

28/02/2018 04:09 PM

The establishment of the information and technology (IT) system operation centre and customer service centre is a significant milstone in the Vietnam Social Security (VSS)’s development.

28/02/2018 03:41 PM

In recent years, the social insurance sector has been busy applying IT software, which has helped save costs, time and labour force for social insurance agencies, and other units and people.

28/02/2018 03:31 PM

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) jumped 18 places to the second position in the Vietnam ICT Index 2017, indicating the agency’s readiness for applying information and communications technology in ministries, ministry-level agencies and Government offices which provide public services. With its efforts, the VSS now has an information technology (IT) system able to manage its operations from the central to local level, thus helping control health insurance and social insurance funds and increasing service quality.

28/02/2018 03:24 PM

The Government Office recently announced Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam’s conclusion at the plenary session of the National Committee on Information Technology Application.

03/02/2018 12:52 PM

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, more than 31,000 HIV-carried patients (about a quarter of the total nationwide) are receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment. However, only 76.8 percent of them have health insurance. By the end of 2018, subsidies for ARV therapy will be cut, and patients will have to rely on health insurance.

03/02/2018 12:48 PM

Like many countries, in Vietnam, the rights to work and have a rest are highlighted and protected in the Constitution and legal regulations on labour which stipulate that workers have the right to go to work and be free to choose jobs, undertake vocational training to improve skills and protected from discrimination.