Vietnam: List of persons eligible for health insurance in 2022

Hi Lawnet, I have a question to ask. Which subjects are eligible for health insurance in 2022? - Ngoc Tuyet (Vung Tau, Vietnam)


Vietnam: List of persons eligible for health insurance in 2022 (Source: Internet)

Law on Health Insurance 2008 amended in 2014 stipulates the persons eligible for health insurance, including:

1. Group whose health insurance in 2022 is paid by the employers and employees in Vietnam

The group whose insurance is paid by the employers and employees, including:

- Employees on indefinite or at least full three-month contracts; salaried business managers; officials and civil servants (hereinafter referred to as employees).

- Part-time officers in communes, wards and towns under the regulations of the law.

2. Group of the insured whose health insurance in 2022 is paid by the social insurance organizations in Vietnam

The group of the insured whose insurance is paid by the social insurance organizations, including:

- Persons receiving monthly retirement pensions and compensation for loss of capacity for work

- Persons receiving monthly social insurance pensions due to occupational accidents or diseases or diseases needing long-term treatment;

Beneficiaries at the age of 80 or above;

- Officers in communes, wards and towns who have left employment and been receiving monthly social insurance benefits.

- Persons receiving unemployment benefits.

3. The group of the insured whose health insurance in 2022 is paid by the State budget in Vietnam

The group of the insured whose insurance is paid by the State budget, including:

- Commissioned officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned soldiers on active duty;

Commissioned police officers and non-commissioned police officers; police students, non-commissioned police officers or soldiers on fixed term contracts;

Ciphers whose salaries are the same as the salaries as the servicemen; cipher students whose benefits are the same as the benefits of students in military or police academies.

- Officers in communes, wards and towns who have left employment and been receiving monthly pensions funded by the State budget.

- Persons no longer receiving compensation for loss of capacity for work and being receiving monthly pensions funded by the State budget;

- Persons performing meritorious services in the wars, war veterans;

- Incumbent deputies of the National Assembly or the People’s Councils at all levels;

- Children under the age of 6;

- Persons receiving monthly social protection pensions;

- Poor household members,

Ethnics living in regions facing socio-economic difficulties,

Persons living in regions facing extreme socio-economic difficulties;

Persons living in island communes or districts.

- Relatives of persons performing meritorious services in the wars such as biology parents, husbands, wives or children of revolutionary martyrs; Persons rearing revolutionary martyrs;

- Relatives of persons performing meritorious services in the wars, except for the insured prescribed at Point i, Clause 3, Article 12 of the Law on Health Insurance 2008 amended in 2014;

- Relatives of the insured prescribed in Point a, Clause 3, Article 12 of the Law on Health Insurance 2008 amended in 2014;

- Persons who have donated body parts under the regulations of the law;

- Foreigners studying in Vietnam that are granted scholarships funded by the Vietnam State budget.

4. Group of the insured whose health insurance in 2022 are supported by the State budget in Vietnam

The group of the insured whose insurance are supported by the State budget, including:

- Members of households living above the poverty line;

- Students.

In addition, group of the household insured including household members except for the ones prescribed in Clauses 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Article 12 of the Law on Health Insurance 2008 amended in 2014;

 The government shall prescribed the insured different from the ones prescribed in Clauses 3, 4 and 5 of Article 12 of the Law on Health Insurance 2008 amended in 2014.

Ngoc Nhi

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