Continuing Voluntary Social Insurance Contributions After Starting Employment

Based on the provisions of Clause 4, Article 2 of the 2014 Law on Social Insurance:

Voluntary social insurance participants are Vietnamese citizens aged 15 years or older and are not subject to compulsory social insurance contributions.

=> Thus, you are entitled to participate in voluntary social insurance when you do not fall within the category of mandatory social insurance participants.

And Clause 1, Article 2 of the 2014 Law on Social Insurance stipulates the cases of compulsory social insurance participation. If you fall into one of the following categories, you will not be eligible for voluntary social insurance but must participate in compulsory social insurance:

- Persons working under indefinite-term labor contracts, definite-term labor contracts, seasonal labor contracts, or labor contracts for a specific job with a term of between 03 months and less than 12 months, including labor contracts signed between the employer and the legal representative of a person under 15 years of age in accordance with the labor law;

- Persons working under labor contracts with a term of between 01 month and less than 03 months;

Sincerely.