Comrade Tran Thi Van, Deputy Head of the Provincial NA Delegation, presided over the conference. The attendees included Comrade Vuong Quoc Tuan, Member of the Central Party Committee's Standing Board, and Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Comrade Nguyen Hanh Chung, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, as well as leaders of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and representatives from various departments, sectors, and functional agencies of the province.

Nearly 300 constituents participated in the conference, including officials, workers, and employees from provincial agencies and enterprises, representatives of labor users, and officials involved in social insurance work in various agencies, units, and businesses within the province.

Deputy Head of the Provincial NA Delegation, Tran Thi Van, gathered feedback from the constituents.

She provided a general overview of the revised Social Insurance Law project. According to her report, during over 7 years of implementation, the Law on Social Insurance of 2014 has affirmed the correctness of the social insurance policies and regimes based on the principles of contribution and entitlement, meeting the aspirations of a large number of workers, ensuring social security, and international integration. However, alongside the achievements, the implementation process of the 2014 Law on Social Insurance has also revealed existing limitations and shortcomings, such as low coverage of participants and beneficiaries in the social insurance scheme compared to the potential, relatively low compliance with social insurance regulations, cases of late or evaded contributions occurring in many enterprises and localities, the voluntary social insurance policy not being attractive enough for people to participate, and certain provisions no longer being suitable for the current practical conditions and context.

The draft revised Law on Social Insurance consists of 9 chapters and 136 articles, including many new content designed to address the limitations and shortcomings of the current law. It includes the supplementation of social retirement allowances, the formation of a multi-tier social insurance system, the expansion of compulsory social insurance coverage, the addition of sick leave and maternity benefits for non-professional workers at the communal level, the inclusion of maternity benefits for voluntary social insurance participants, the reduction of the minimum years of contributions required to receive a pension from 20 to 15 years to provide opportunities for late joiners or those with non-continuous contribution periods to receive a pension, increasing rights and attractiveness to encourage workers to reserve their contribution periods to receive a pension instead of receiving a one-time lump sum payment, being eligible for a monthly allowance when not meeting the conditions for a pension and not reaching the retirement age, being entitled to health insurance provided by the State budget during the period of receiving a monthly allowance, and being entitled to health insurance provided by the social insurance fund if the reservation continues after 1 year without receiving a one-time lump sum payment.

Nearly 300 delegates and voters attended the conference.

They expressed strong agreement with the contents of the draft Law on Social Insurance (amended) and provided opinions related to the consideration of adding a family allowance for workers, setting the minimum pension level for male workers at 40% and female workers at 50% of the average wage participating in social insurance, studying an appropriate roadmap to implement one-time social insurance options, adding social retirement allowances to form a multi-tier social insurance system, and regulating the entitlement to benefits for sickness and maternity for non-professional workers at the commune, ward, and township levels.

At the same time, the voters also recommended expanding the compulsory participants of social insurance, reducing the minimum number of years of social insurance contributions required to receive a monthly pension, regulating one-time social insurance benefits, and paying attention to public awareness campaigns about joining and withdrawing from social insurance. They also suggested adding short-term benefits such as sickness benefits for voluntary social insurance participants and increasing support from the state budget to attract people to access social insurance policies and participate in voluntary social insurance.

Representatives from relevant departments and agencies directly addressed the concerns raised by the voters, clarifying many issues related to the implementation of social insurance policies and the well-being of workers.

In conclusion, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Tran Thi Van, acknowledged and highly appreciated the heartfelt contributions and sense of responsibility of the voters. She also welcomed and collected suggestions and feedback regarding the draft Law on Social Insurance (amended) to compile, categorize, and report to the National Assembly in the upcoming session./.