Is it permissible for a person to be issued with the health insurance card when he/she is receiving monthly benefits for elderly people in Vietnam?
Is it permissible for a person to be issued with the health insurance card when he/she is receiving monthly benefits for elderly people in Vietnam? Are people of militia forces eligible to be issued with the health insurance cards in Vietnam? If a person is living in a disadvantaged area but is not classified as a poor household, can he/she be covered by the health insurance in Vietnam?
Is it permissible for a person to be issued with the health insurance card when he/she is receiving monthly benefits for elderly people in Vietnam?
Is my mother entitled to free health insurance if she is currently receiving monthly benefits for elderly people? She is already 80 years old. Thank you.
Answer:
Pursuant to Article 3 of the Decree 146/2018/ND-CP stipulating group of health insurance policyholders whose contributions are paid by the state budget as follows:
1. Public officers of communes, wards or townlets who leave work and are currently entitled to monthly social insurance benefits financed by the state budget.
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14. Persons already donating human body organs under laws on organ donation and transplantation.
15. Foreigners studying in Vietnam who receive scholarships financed by the state budget of Vietnam.
16. Home attendants of persons rendering meritorious revolutionary services, including:
a) Attendants of Vietnamese heroic mothers;
b) Attendants of wounded soldiers, sick soldiers who suffer from a reduction by at least 81% of labor capacity;
c) Attendants of partisans suffering diseases due to exposure to toxic chemicals whose labor capacity is reduced by at least 81%.
17. Persons aged 80 years or older who are entitled to monthly benefits for elderly people under laws on social insurance.
Therefore, if your mother is receiving monthly benefits for elderly people and is already 80 years old, the government will provide her with a health insurance card. Therefore, you can contact the Commune People's Committee or the Social Insurance office for assistance with the procedures.
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Are people of militia forces eligible to be issued with the health insurance cards in Vietnam?
Are people of militia forces eligible to be issued with the health insurance cards in Vietnam?
Answer:
Pursuant to Article 3 of the Decree 146/2018/ND-CP stipulating group of health insurance policyholders whose contributions are paid by the state budget as follows:
1. Public officers of communes, wards or townlets who leave work and are currently entitled to monthly social insurance benefits financed by the state budget.
2. Persons already terminating entitlement to incapacity benefits who are currently entitled to monthly benefits financed by the state budget.
3. Persons rendering meritorious revolutionary services under the provisions of the Ordinance on preference treatment for persons rendering meritorious revolutionary services.
4. War veterans
5. Persons engaged in the resistance war and protecting the Fatherland
6. Incumbent National Assembly deputies and incumbent members of all-level People’s Councils.
7. Children under 6 years of age.
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Based on the regulations, people of militia forces are not among the groups covered by the state for health insurance. Therefore, you are not eligible for a health insurance card.
If a person is living in a disadvantaged area but is not classified as a poor household, can he/she be covered by the health insurance in Vietnam?
If I am living in a disadvantaged area but am not classified as a poor household, can I be covered by the health insurance in Vietnam?
Answer:
Pursuant to Clause 9 Article 3 of the Decree 146/2018/ND-CP stipulating group of health insurance policyholders whose contributions are paid by the state budget as follows:
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 as stipulated in the Prime Minister's Decision No. 59/2015/QD-TTg dated November 19, 2015 promulgating the multi-dimensional poverty approach for the period of 2016-2020 and other decisions of competent authorities to amend, supplement or replace the poverty line applied over periods of time;
- 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.
As regulations above, you must be an ethnic minority residing in a disadvantaged region or belong to a poor household to be eligible for the state-issued health insurance card.
Therefore, your case does not fall into any of the above regulations, so the state does not cover your health insurance. You can consider joining health insurance through your household to avail benefits for medical examinations and treatments.
Best regards!
