15/05/2021 03:50 PM

According to the Vietnam Social Security (VSS), health insurance cardholders made about 160 million visits to healthcare facilities last year. Of them, dozens of thousands of patients had the health insurance fund cover their costs ranging from VNĐ100 million ($4,300) to VNĐ1 billion ($43,300) each.

15/05/2021 11:35 AM

According to a report by the Customer Service Center (Vietnam Social Security (VSS)), as of May 9, 2021, 4,806,146 applications nationwide for registration of VssID have been approved, showing that the application is increasingly accepted by people and workers.

15/05/2021 10:00 AM

The application of information services on the mobile platform VssID of Viet Nam Social Security has been clearly demonstrating a good tool for protecting employees and insurers since it was put on operation in December 2020.

14/05/2021 04:14 PM

The Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2020 made public in April, 2021 indicates that: staying outside the safety net of health insurance is the second biggest concern, after poverty risk, of the local people.

12/05/2021 02:50 PM

On May 11, 2021, Vietnam Social Security (VSS) held a nationwide online conference on contribution collection and insurance books and cards. Tran Dinh Lieu, Deputy General Director of VSS, chaired the Conference. Attendants were heads of units under the VSS at the central site; heads of social insurance agencies of provinces and cities; district social insurance agencies and professional departments at local sites.

11/05/2021 01:45 PM

Viet Nam plans to have more than 95 per cent of the population participating in health insurance by 2025.

11/05/2021 09:31 AM

The number of people participating in social and health insurance in the first months of 2021 has decreased compared to that of 2020 due to the adverse impacts of COVID-19. Meanwhile, more beneficiaries asked for lump-sum social insurance payments due to an increasing number of unemployed people.

10/05/2021 04:05 PM

The decree guiding the Law on Citizen’s Identity, the decision on increasing financial support for participants in unemployment insurance; and the decision on setting up s police team at the commune level are among six decrees, decisions and circulars that will come into effect in May.