Speaking at a meeting with leaders of VSS units on February 7 - the first working day of the Lunar New Year, the General Director said he believed that with the resolve, strength and unity of the whole system from leaders, managers to labourers, Vietnam’s social security sector will innovate and make all efforts to fulfill assigned tasks, contributing to ensuring the national social security.

 VSS General Director Nguyen The Manh delivers a speech at the meeting.

According to Chu Manh Sinh, chief of VSS staff, before, during and after the Lunar New Year holiday, the VSS ordered local social security offices to implement tasks for 2022, focusing on those assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister.

The tasks include expanding the network of social and health insurance participants, urging units and enterprises to pay off insurance debts, paying January and February pensions and social allowances and taking care of local people’s lives.

In the context of complex developments of the coronavirus, the VSS has strengthened COVID-19 preventive and control measures following the instructions of the Government, the Prime Minister, the National Steering Committee on COVID-19, the health ministry and other agencies. The implementation of COVID-19 preventive and control measures has also been monitored to make sure that the practice was strictly carried out, in which responsibility of the head of each unit was attached much importance to.

VSS called for heads of VSS units and social insurance agencies in cities and provinces to proactively and flexibly develop their own working schemes to make sure that all works related to the settlement of insurance benefits for participants were not affected whilst following pandemic prevention regulations. Concurrently, VSS conducted timely COVID-19 testing for the staff when necessary to reduce the spread of the epidemic.

The VSS presented health insurance cards to poor patients being treated at central and local-level hospitals of 63 provinces and localities nationwide to give them a source of encouragement during the Lunar New Year.

VSS Deputy General Director Pham Luong Son speaks at the meeting.

The VSS general director granted 375 gifts to patients in disadvantaged circumstances at 15 central-level hospitals in Hanoi.

About 140 gifts were given to students of the ethnic boarding school in Son La Province along with 50 health insurance cards and 100 voluntary social insurance cards.

Social security offices of other provinces and cities presented 3,146 gifts, 10,180 health insurance cards and 487 voluntary social insurance cards to patients in difficult circumstances.

VSS General Girector Nguyen The Manh said in 2021, the sector had completed the tasks of ensuring social security as assigned by the Party and the State. One of the bright spots last year was the timely launch of the Government's unexpected supportive packages for employees and businesses affected by the pandemic.

Manh commended VSS employees for strictly implementing discipline and making contributions to the sector’s development.

Contributions made by the staff are always recognised by the sector’s leaders and people.

Achievements are the results of trust and strength of the great unity, serving as a solid foundation, an important premise, and valuable lessons to create new opportunities for VSS in the coming years, he said.

Duong Manh Hung, director of the Customer Care and Support Service Centre, speaks at the meeting.

“In 2021, in the face of great difficulties and challenges, we developed creative and positive solutions. The whole sector has completed the targets. Many targets were accomplished with excellent performance and highly appreciated by leaders of the Party and State, helping promote the VSS’ position,” general director Manh said.

He expressed his belief that in 2022, the VSS will continue to accomplish assigned tasks with the motto of putting people and businesses at the core of the service and the launching of an action programme focusing on solidarity, discipline, responsibility, creativity, flexibility and efficiency