Strict handling of enterprises delaying payments of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance premiums in Vietnam

Strict handling of enterprises delaying payments of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance premiums in Vietnam (Illustrative image)

To achieve certain targets by 2025, such as aiming for the number of people participating in social insurance to reach a rate of 45% of the labor force within the working age, the number of people participating in unemployment insurance to reach 35% of the labor force within the working age, and the number of participants in health insurance to reach 95% of the population, Vietnam Social Security has proposed 10 groups of primary tasks and solutions under the Action Program to implement the 5-year socio-economic development plan of 2021-2025 in the social insurance sector.

One of the key contents is that the entire social insurance sector should proactively make efforts and resolve to perform the assigned tasks, find solutions to develop and expand the target audience participating in social insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance to complete the coverage targets assigned by the Prime Minister the Government of Vietnam, while strengthening the task of inspection and specialized inspection of social insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance according to legal regulations, focusing on inspecting and reducing debts and abuses of the social insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance funds.

Some solutions to develop and expand the target audience participation in the near future are as follows:

First: For the group of participants in both social insurance and health insurance

- Closely coordinate with the tax agency to grasp information about the number of operating units, units newly established, dissolved, or bankrupt, the number of laborers, and the wages and allowances of workers at units and enterprises to urge and mobilize units to register for social insurance and health insurance for workers.

- Closely follow the labor using units, financial agencies, and labor agencies to promptly transfer social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance contributions.

- Strengthen sudden inspections regarding the payment of social insurance and health insurance for workers at enterprises, strictly handle enterprises with violations such as evasion of payment, underpayment, or long-term arrears of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance.

- Assign development targets to each level of social insurance, each individual in charge; consider the achievement of developing participant targets in social insurance and health insurance as the main criterion for evaluating task completion at all levels of social insurance.

- Promote the reform of administrative procedures, increase the application of information technology in the management of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance.

- Launch monthly emulation campaigns with the theme: "Boosting the development of participants in social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance, collection, and debt reduction in 2020" to complete the targets assigned by the Prime Minister the Government of Vietnam.

Second: For the group of participants in voluntary social insurance

- Train advocacy skills for collection agency staff.

- Enhance coordination in organizing customer conferences. Send lists of those due to pay voluntary social insurance and health insurance to collection agencies to urge and mobilize participants to continue their participation.

- Assign development targets to each collection agency.

- Organize nationwide propaganda and advocacy campaigns to encourage people to participate in voluntary social insurance from central to provincial and district levels to effectively implement the goal of universal social insurance.

- Propose local authorities to provide additional support for participants' contributions beyond the regulations of the Government of Vietnam.

Third: For the group of participants in health insurance only

- For the group whose contributions are supported by the state budget: Closely coordinate with managing agencies in the process of reviewing and listing health insurance participants promptly, striving to achieve 100% participation by households near the poverty line, students, and cooperate with financial agencies at all levels to advise the People’s Committee to provide additional support for participants, especially members of households engaged in agriculture, forestry, fishery, and salt production with an average living standard.

- For the group participating in household health insurance:

• - Expand collection agencies, regularly train and guide the collection agency system. Train advocacy skills for collection agency staff in a professional manner. Assign development targets to each collection agency.
• - Propose the People’s Committee of provinces and cities to provide additional support for participants' contributions.

Thus, it can be seen that Social Insurance has thoroughly assigned and directed units within the sector to focus on inspection and reducing arrears and abuses of the social, unemployment, and health insurance funds, while strictly penalizing enterprises with violations such as evasion of payment, underpayment or long-term arrears of social insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance.

Ty Na

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