Attending on behalf of VSS were: Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of VSS, Nguyen Van Cuong; Deputy General Directors of VSS and heads of affiliated units.

Among the retired officials were: Former Minister of Finance, former Chairman of the VSS Board of Trustees, Ho Te; former Deputy Minister, General Director of VSS, Nguyen Thi Minh; former Deputy General Directors of VSS; along with a large number of retired officials from various periods of the VSS.

Numerous past leaders, employees, and retirees of Vietnam Social Security attended the meeting

At the meeting, General Director Nguyen The Manh joyfully shared the achievements that the entire VSS sector had accomplished in 2023 with retired officials from the southern region. General Director Nguyen The Manh stated: In 2023, although there were many favorable conditions, opportunities, as well as difficulties and challenges intertwined, the difficulties and challenges outweighed the advantages, directly affecting the implementation of tasks by the VSS sector.

Firstly, surpassing targets regarding the coverage of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance: by the end of 2023, the proportion of people participating in social insurance nationwide reached about 39.25% of the labor force (achieving the target set in Government Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP), with approximately 18.26 million people, including about 3.92% of the labor force participating in voluntary social insurance with nearly 1.83 million people (exceeding the target set for the period until 2025 in Central Committee Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW). The proportion of people participating in unemployment insurance reached nearly 31.6% of the labor force with 14.7 million people.

Especially, the health insurance coverage rate reached 93.35% (exceeding 0.15% compared to Government Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP) with over 93.3 million participants, achieving the socio-economic target set in National Assembly Resolution No. 68/2022/QH15, approaching the goal of universal health insurance. The amount of overdue payments for social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance accounted for 2.69% of the total amount owed. This is the lowest ratio of overdue payments to total payments since 2016 (reduced from 6% in 2016 to 2.69%).

VSS’ General Director Nguyen The Manh delivered a speech at the Program

Secondly, the implementation of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance policies was carried out with many solutions, ensuring the full and timely rights of participants, optimizing funds, contributing to supporting and stabilizing the lives of workers, and caring for and protecting people's health. In 2023, the country had more than 174.8 million health insurance medical examination and treatment services with 55 million people receiving medical treatment, an increase of over 23.4 million medical treatment services compared to 2022; the amount spent on health insurance medical treatment services was about VND 124.3 trillion; resolving benefits for more than 13 million people enjoying social insurance benefits.

Thirdly, financial management and fund management were carried out in accordance with regulations, openly, transparently, economically, efficiently, ensuring the principles of safety, sustainability, efficiency, and optimizing investment and fund utilization; serving timely payments for participants and beneficiaries, closely coordinating the implementation of tasks of collection, expenditure, policy resolution, fund management, and development of participants in social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance; combating waste and embezzlement of funds.

Fourthly, digital transformation was promoted and the ambitious Project 06 was effectively implemented in management, highly appreciated by the people and society; efficient application of digital technology; administrative procedures were regularly reviewed and simplified to maximize convenience for people and businesses. People and businesses can interact and transact online with social insurance agencies 24/7 with 100% of procedures provided online at level 4: The number of administrative procedures was reduced from 114 (in 2015) to only 25. Especially, up to now, 100% of health insurance facilities (12,851 facilities) nationwide have implemented health insurance using ID cards, reducing the time and procedures for health insurance, improving service quality, and helping to manage and use health insurance funds effectively.

Former Deputy General Director of VSS and Head of the VSS Retiree Liaison Committee Nguyen Dinh Khuong spoke at the event

At the meeting, former Deputy General Director of VSS and Head of the VSS Retiree Liaison Committee Nguyen Dinh Khuong, on behalf of retired officials from the VSS, congratulated the sector on its development over the past year, especially the remarkable achievements of the sector in 2023. He emphasized the strong innovative communication work of the sector.

Former Deputy General Director of VSS Nguyen Dinh Khuong also briefly informed about the activities of the VSS Retiree Liaison Committee in 2023; at the same time, he emphasized that retired officials from the VSS will continue to strongly accompany the leadership and employees of VSS to overcome difficulties and challenges, continue to promote traditions, and help the sector fulfill all assigned tasks for the social security of the country.

On this occasion, the VSS Retiree Liaison Committee also organized a longevity celebration for 29 members.

Photos of the longevity celebration taken at the event:

Illustrative images (VSS)