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.

03/02/2018 12:21 PM

Protecting the health of pupils and students is an important task for the Party, State, each family and society. In 1994, only two years after the health insurance policy was issued, health insurance for pupils and students was implemented across the nation.

03/02/2018 11:57 AM

Enterprises that fail to make insurance payments for their employees will be punished as Article 216 of the 2015 Penal Code will take effect from January 1, 2018.

03/02/2018 11:50 AM

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs partnered with the General Statistics Office to release a report on Vietnam’s labour market in the third quarter of 2017 at a workshop on December 26.

09/01/2018 05:03 PM

According to the 2014 Law on Social Insurance, four new regulations on social insurance will take effect from January 1, 2018.