Will the Vietnam's Unemployment Insurance Fund be used for paying health insurance premiums for workers on unemployment allowance?
Will the Vietnam's Unemployment Insurance Fund be used for paying health insurance premiums for workers on unemployment allowance?
According to the provisions of Article 57 of the Law on Employment 2013, regulations on levels of contribution to, sources and use of, the Vietnam's Unemployment Insurance Fund are specifically as follows:
Levels of contribution to, sources and use of, the Unemployment Insurance Fund
1. The levels of and responsibility to pay unemployment insurance premiums are specified as follows:
a/ Workers shall pay unemployment insurance premiums equal to 1% of their monthly wage;
b/ Employers shall pay unemployment insurance premiums equal to 1% of the monthly wage fund of the workers currently participating in unemployment insurance;
c/ The State shall provide at most 1% of the monthly wage fund from the central budget as support for payment of unemployment insurance premiums of workers currently participating in unemployment insurance.
2. Sources forming the Unemployment Insurance Fund include:
a/ Contributions and support specified in Clause 1 of this Article;
b/ Profits from the Fund’s investment activities;
c/ Other lawful revenues.
3. The Unemployment Insurance Fund must be used for:
a/ Paying unemployment allowance;
b/ Supporting training and retraining activities to improve occupational skills qualifications for job maintenance for workers;
c/ Supporting vocational training;
d/ Supporting job counseling and recommendation;
dd/ Paying health insurance premiums for workers on unemployment allowance;
e/ Paying expenses for unemployment insurance management in accordance with the Law on Social Insurance;
g/ Making investment for preservation and growth of the Fund.
Thus, according to the above regulations, in addition to receiving unemployment benefits, the unemployment insurance fund will also receive support in paying health insurance premiums for workers on unemployment allowance.
Will the Vietnam's Unemployment Insurance Fund be used for paying health insurance premiums for workers on unemployment allowance?
Vietnam: When will a person on unemployment allowance stop receiving it?
According to the provisions of Article 53 of the Law on Employment 2013, a person on unemployment allowance will stop receiving it in the following cases:
- The duration of unemployment allowance receipt expires;
- He/she has found a job;
- He/she performs the military or public security service obligation;
- He/she receives monthly pension;
- He/she has twice refused without a plausible reason to take up the job recommended by the employment service center of the locality where he/she currently receives unemployment allowance;
- He/she fails to monthly notify his/her job seeking under Article 52 of this Law for 3 consecutive months;
- He/she goes abroad for settlement or as guest worker;
- He/she attends a training course of full 12 months or longer;
- He/she is administratively sanctioned for violations of the law on unemployment insurance;
- He/she dies;
- He/she serves a decision on application of the measure to send him/her to a reformatory, compulsory education institution or compulsory detoxification establishment;
- He/she is declared by a court as missing;
- He/she is kept in temporary detention or serves a prison sentence.
What are the regulations on continuation of unemployment benefits in Vietnam?
According to Article 20 of Decree 28/2015/ND-CP, regulations on continuation of unemployment benefits are specifically as follows:
Continuation of unemployment benefits
1. If employees temporarily suspended unemployment benefits under the provisions of Paragraph 1 of Article 53 of the Law on Employment are still in time of unemployment benefits in accordance with the decision of the Director of the Services of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs but continue to make notification about finding jobs every month as prescribed, within 02 working days from the date the employees notify about finding employment, employment service center shall request to the Director of the Services of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs for decision on the continuation of unemployment benefits for the employees
Decision on continuation of unemployment benefits shall be sent by employment service center as follows: 01 shall be sent to social insurance at province level in order to continue to pay unemployment benefits for employees ; 01shall be sent to employees. Decision on continuation of unemployment benefits shall comply with the form defined by the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs .
2. In the suspension period of unemployment benefits, the employees are not entitled to unemployment benefits.
Thus, based on the above regulations, persons on unemployment allowance will be suspended from receiving it if they fail to monthly notify their job seeking under Article 52 of the Law on Employment 2013.
However, if employees temporarily suspended unemployment benefits are still in time of unemployment benefits in accordance with the decision of the Director of the Services of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs but continue to make notification about finding jobs every month, employment service center shall request to the Director of the Services of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs for decision on the continuation of unemployment benefits for the employees.
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