The information was released by the Department of Employment under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs at a meeting reviewing 10 years of the unemployment insurance policy held in Thanh Hoa province on July 12.

Unemployment insurance has covered nearly 13 million people in Vietnam so far.

Deputy Director of the department Le Quang Trung said the impact of unemployment on economic, political and social stability in each country is considerable. It is one of the basic causes of economic stagnation since a high unemployment rate is accompanied by income decrease.

Noting the growth in the number of people covered in unemployment insurance from 2008 to 2018, he said while the figure was just about 5.99 million in 2009, it topped 10.3 million in 2015 when the Employment Law took effect, and approximated 13 million at present.

Unemployment insurance premiums collected have also increased year by year, reaching 15.53 trillion VND (668.8 million USD) in 2018. Meanwhile, the payments totalled about 9.72 trillion VND last year, 92.8 percent of which was spent on unemployment allowances and nearly 1 percent on vocational training support.

At the meeting, participants discussed measures to better carry out unemployment insurance policies and protect the interests of those losing their jobs.

Foreign workers entitled to compulsory social insurance

The Vietnam Social Security has directed its branches in cities and provinces nationwide to collect compulsory social insurance premiums of foreign employees in the country.

Nearly all HIV carriers in Bac Giang receive insurance-covered ARVs

Up to 98 percent of the 1,024 HIV carriers in the northern province of Bac Giang are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs covered by health insurance (SHI), heard a medical event in the province on March 15.

Health insurance card holders reach 82.7 million

  

Health insurance covers 87.7% of population, exceeding yearly target

The health sector fulfilled two targets set by the National Assembly and the Government, with the number of hospital beds per 10,000 people at 26.5 and the health insurance coverage rate of 87.7%.

98.5 percent of population covered by health insurance

(BGO) – A meeting was held on December 18 by the Steering Board for the project that executes the health insurance (HI) for the whole resident by 2020 so as to conclude the Action month to call for the residents’ HI participation in 2019 (November 2018). The event was chaired by Le Anh Duong, Vice Chairman of the Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee, Head of the Steering Board. 

Source: VNA