26/09/2024 03:30 PM

Social insurance is a main pillar of the social security system in Vietnam’s socialist-oriented market economy. Proper implementation of social insurance is the duty of the entire political system. Currently, Vietnam is undergoing a population aging process where the proportion of people of working age is decreasing, and the dependency ratio is increasing. According to MOLISA's Minister Dao Ngoc Dung, increasing retirement age could be considered an inevitable solution for coping with population ageing, improving gender equality, meeting market demands, and ensuring long-term balance of the social insurance fund.

26/09/2024 02:22 PM

A truly inclusive multilateralism must embrace diversity and place solidarity at the heart of international cooperation, the ILO’s Director-General has emphasized.

26/09/2024 10:50 AM

Health insurance is very important for all people so amending and suplementing law on health insurance to ensure the best benefits for the beneficiaries. The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee continued its 37th working session on September 25, focusing on contributing comments to the draft Law on supplementing and amending some articles of the Law on Health Insurance. Deputy NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Thanh chaired the session.

26/09/2024 09:14 AM

The health care and protection for people constitute an important task and top priority of the Vietnamese State. Resolution 20-NQ/TW of October 25, 2017 of the 6th Plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee on “ Enhancing the protection, care and improvement of people’s health in the new situation” (Resolution 20-NQ/TW) has affirmed the goal of constantly heightening Vietnamese people’s health, stature, life span and living quality; ensuring that every citizen is entitled to health protection and care; to be equal in rights and obligations in participating in and benefiting from the health insurance and related services. With the efforts of the entire political system and the health sector as the core, the protection, care and improvement of the people’s health have obtained great results, thus greatly contributing to the national development.

25/09/2024 09:30 AM

Social security is a basic human right. Portable social security benefits for migrants have great potential to alleviate poverty and contribute to development. Yet, The migrants still face barriers and difficulties related to accessing health care services.

24/09/2024 01:50 PM

VSS has made numerous proposals for the revised health insurance law to ensure the rights and interests of health insurance participants and address the shortcomings and obstacles of current regulations.

24/09/2024 08:16 AM

Viet Nam Social Security’s activities in response to the National Digital Transformation Day 2024 must be practical, meaningful, cost-effective, and efficient, avoiding any superficiality.

23/09/2024 05:05 PM

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has proposed making amendments to health insurance law regarding assessment work, citing that there is an urgent need to make changes to address shortcomings and barriers of the current Law on Health Insurance.