Who are health insurance policyholders whose contributions are paid by the state budget of Vietnam? What are the state budget’s support rates of payment of health insurance premiums?
Who are health insurance policyholders whose contributions are paid by the state budget of Vietnam?
According to the provisions of Article 3 of Decree No. 146/2018/ND-CP on the group of health insurance policyholders whose contributions are paid by the state budget, including:
- Public officers of communes, wards or townlets who leave work and are currently entitled to monthly social insurance benefits financed by the state budget.
- Persons already terminating entitlement to incapacity benefits who are currently entitled to monthly benefits financed by the state budget.
- Persons rendering meritorious revolutionary services under the provisions of the Ordinance on preference treatment for persons rendering meritorious revolutionary services.
- War veterans.
- Persons engaged in the resistance war and protecting the Fatherland, including:
+ Persons fighting the war against the US for protection of the Motherland who have been granted benefits.
+ Persons who have already been entitled to benefits under the Decision No. 62/2011/QD-TTg but are not veterans as stipulated in clause 4 of this Article;
+ Officers and soldiers of the People's Police participating in the anti-US resistance war for national salvation who have less than 20 years working in the People's Police, who have resigned or returned from the People's Police to their localities and have been entitled to benefits under the Prime Minister's Decision No. 53/2010/QD-TTg;
+ Young volunteers;
+ Frontline non-combat soldiers participating in the resistance war against France, against the US or the Fatherland protection war and sent on international missions.
- Incumbent National Assembly deputies and incumbent members of all-level People’s Councils.
- Children under 6 years of age.
- Persons eligible to be entitled to monthly social protection benefits under laws on the elderly, the disabled and subject of social protection programs.
- Members of poor households; ethnic minority people living in areas with difficult socio-economic conditions; people living in areas with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions; persons living in island communes or districts and some other subjects, specifically including:
+ Members of poor family households defined according to the classification criteria regarding incomes, members of multi-dimensional poor households that have a shortage of health insurance;
+ Ethnics living in areas with difficult socio-economic conditions under the regulations adopted by the Government and the Prime Minister;
+ Inhabitants living in areas with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions under the regulations adopted by the Government and the Prime Minister;
+ Residents living in island communes or districts in accordance with regulations of the Government and the Prime Minister.
- Persons who are awarded the title of People’s artisans or outstanding artisans living in families earning the monthly income per capita lower than the base pay regulated by the Government.
- Relatives of martyrs include: Natural parents; spouses and children of martyrs; people who have taken care of martyrs.
- Relatives of persons rendering meritorious revolutionary services, including:
+ Spouses, children aged from over 6 years to under 18 years, or 18 years or older if they are still going to school or are suffering serious disabilities or extremely serious disabilities, of the followings: Revolutionaries carrying out activities before January 1, 1945; revolutionaries carrying out activities from January 1, 1945 to the August Uprising in 1945;
+ Natural parents, spouses, children aged from over 6 years to under 18 years, or 18 years or older if they are still going to school or are suffering serious disabilities or extremely serious disabilities, of the followings: Heroes of the People’s Armed Forces and heroes of labor in the resistance war stage;
+ Natural parents, spouses, children aged from over 6 years to under 18 years, or 18 years or older if they are still going to school or are suffering serious disabilities or extremely serious disabilities, of the followings: Wounded soldiers, sick soldiers, and partisans infected with toxic chemicals whose injury rate is at least 61%.
+ Natural children aged 6 years or older of partisans exposed to toxic chemicals causing deformities and disabilities due to consequences thereof, unable to be self-reliant in performing everyday life activities or suffering from reductions in capabilities for self-reliance in everyday life activities, who are entitled to monthly benefits.
- Relatives of officers, professional servicemen, non-commissioned officers and military soldiers in active service, administrative officers, non-commissioned officers and technical or engineering officers, non-commissioned officers in the people’s public security forces, trainees of the people’s police, non-commissioned officers and cryptographic officers who are paid salaries as servicemen, cryptographic trainees entitled to the same compensation regimes and policies as trainees of military and police education institutions.
- Persons already donating human body organs under laws on organ donation and transplantation.
- Foreigners studying in Vietnam who receive scholarships financed by the state budget of Vietnam.
- Home attendants of persons rendering meritorious revolutionary services, including:
+ Attendants of Vietnamese heroic mothers;
+ Attendants of wounded soldiers, sick soldiers who suffer from a reduction by at least 81% of labor capacity;
+ Attendants of partisans suffering diseases due to exposure to toxic chemicals whose labor capacity is reduced by at least 81%.
- Persons aged 80 years or older who are entitled to monthly benefits for elderly people under laws on social insurance.
Who are health insurance policyholders whose contributions are paid by the state budget of Vietnam? What are the state budget’s support rates of payment of health insurance premiums?
What are the state budget’s support rates of payment of health insurance premiums?
According to the provisions of Article 8 of Decree No. 146/2018/ND-CP on the state budget’s support rates of payment of health insurance premiums as follows:
- The state budget's support shall be paid for 100% of the health insurance contribution rate with respect to members of near-poor families residing in poor districts.
- The state budget’s support shall be paid for at least 70% of the health insurance contribution rate with respect to members of near-poor family households defined according to the near-poor criteria;
- The state budget’s support shall be paid for at least 30% of the health insurance contribution rate with respect to members of multidimensional-poverty family households.
What are the contents of health insurance cards in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 12 of Decree No. 146/2018/ND-CP, health insurance cards in Vietnam shall be issued by competent social insurance agencies and contain the following information:
- Personal information of a policyholder, including full name, gender, date of birth, permanent residence or workplace address.
- Health insurance coverage rate stipulated in Article 14 hereof.
- Start date of a health insurance card.
- Name of the primary healthcare establishment.
- Period of health insurance participation of policyholders.
- Photo of the policyholder.
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