08/11/2018 12:45 PM

The Government of Vietnam has recently issued Decree No.146/2018/ND-CP that elaborates and provides guidance on the enforcement of certain articles of the Law on Health Insurance.

03/11/2018 10:30 AM

According to the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA), about one quarter of cooperatives registered the participation in compulsory social and health insurance for workers. Additionally, the number of cooperative members joining voluntary social insurance remains limited.

24/10/2018 11:31 AM

On October 8, 2018, the Government issued Resolution No.125/NQ-CP on the action programme to implement Resolution No.28-NQ/TW dated May 23, 2018 of the seventh plenary session of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on social insurance policy reform

22/10/2018 04:55 PM

The Government has officially issued a decree stipulating the details of compulsory social insurance for foreign employees in Việt Nam, which will take effect on December 1 this year.

16/10/2018 10:08 AM

The ASEAN Social Security Association (ASSA) has set its sights not only on ensuring social security for people of each member country, but more broadly connecting the ASEAN Community. At the 35th ASSA Board Meeting (ASSA 35), held recently in Vietnam, the role of the association in promoting community connections was clearly demonstrated as representatives of 20 ASSA member organisations from 10 Southeast Asian countries, signed the Nha Trang Joint Declaration.

12/10/2018 02:51 PM

The Regional Social Security Forum for Asia and the Pacific was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from October 2-4 by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the Social Security Organisation of Malaysia (SOCSO).

11/10/2018 08:56 AM

In order to fulfil targets set in Resolution No.28 on social insurance policy reform, the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) will give advice to authorised agencies towards completing policies and supporting insurance participants in paying premiums, stated Deputy Minister and VSS General Director Nguyen Thi Minh.

11/10/2018 08:49 AM

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) is pushing ahead with the applying information technology in its specialised activities and providing more online public services to create favourable conditions for individuals and businesses to carry out procedures relating to social and health insurance.