Nghe An Social Insurance: Determined to effectively implement Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies

This is also the year to implement Plan No. 81-KH/TU dated March 7, 2022 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress on the coverage rate of social insurance and health insurance in Nghe An province by 2025, with a vision to 2030.

Resolutely implement many solutions to successfully complete the task

In the context of the difficult domestic situation due to the impact of epidemics, natural disasters, floods, etc., it has created a lot of pressure on the implementation of the tasks of the Social Insurance sector. With the attention and direction of the Vietnam Social Insurance, the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee; the close and effective coordination of departments, branches and sectors; the participation of Party committees and grassroots authorities along with the efforts to overcome difficulties of all civil servants, public employees and workers in the whole sector, the Provincial Social Insurance has gradually overcome difficulties, basically completing the assigned targets and plans for 2022.

Provincial Social Insurance officers promote health insurance to students of Cua Nam Primary School (Vinh City). Photo courtesy of My Ha

To achieve that result, the Provincial Social Insurance has focused on advising and drastically and effectively implementing Action Programs and work plans, concretizing the tasks in the Resolution of the 19th Nghe An Provincial Party Congress, term 2020-2025.

During the year, the Provincial Social Insurance advised the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee to issue many important documents, such as: Advising the Provincial Party Standing Committee to issue Plan No. 81-KH/TU dated March 7, 2022 on implementing the targets of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress on the coverage rate of social insurance and health insurance in Nghe An province by 2025, with a vision to 2030; Advising the Provincial People's Committee to issue a Decision to strengthen the Steering Committee for implementing social insurance and health insurance policies in Nghe An province; Issuing Directive No. 04/CT-UBND dated January 21, 2022 on strengthening the collection of state budget and collection of social insurance and health insurance in the province;...

Through various forms of propaganda so that people can easily update the superior policies of social insurance and health insurance. Photo courtesy of Dinh Tuyen

At the same time, the Provincial Social Insurance has done a good job of propagating, disseminating and educating the law on social insurance and health insurance for all classes of people and workers.

In particular, during the year, the Postal sector coordinated with the Ministry of Information and Communications to deploy two high-profile communication campaigns on the theme of commemorating the 27th anniversary of the establishment of the Vietnam Social Insurance sector and the Month of promoting the implementation of social insurance and universal health insurance across the province.

Mr. Hoang Van Minh - DirectorNghe An Social InsuranceAffirmation: Nghe An Social Insurance always takes the satisfaction of people, organizations and businesses as a measure of work efficiency. In 2022, Nghe An Social Insurance has focused all resources on administrative reform, applying information technology, shortening the time to handle administrative procedures. Ensure timely reception and handling of administrative procedures for people; do not let people's rights be affected; The rate of files returning results of handling administrative procedures before and on time is always over 99.6%.

Nghe An Social Insurance officers guide people on how to use online public services at the One-Stop Shop. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

In addition, to continue expanding the social security network to people in difficult circumstances, the Provincial Social Insurance has mobilized cadres, civil servants, and workers in the entire industry, and called on organizations, businesses, and philanthropists in the province to support the donation of social insurance books and health insurance cards. With the message "Sowing kindness - Spreading love", Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance organized a program to donate 442 voluntary social insurance books and 3,047 health insurance cards.

In December 2022, the Provincial Social Insurance received financial support from units and enterprises from the Central Government and continued to organize the donation of 250 voluntary social insurance books and 660 health insurance cards. The total budget for donating social insurance books and health insurance cards in 2022 in the province is over 2 billion 486 million VND.

People come to do procedures at the one-stop department of Nghe An Social Insurance. Photo courtesy of Dinh Tuyen

By the end of 2023, the rate of people participating in health insurancereached 93%

The results achieved in 2022 are the premise and basis for Nghe An Social Insurance to continue to accompany the people, units and businesses, striving to complete assigned targets and tasks; contributing to ensuring social security in the province. In 2023, Nghe An Social Insurance will focus on the following main tasks:

Strengthening advisory work and proposing to competent authorities to promptly resolve problems, creating conditions for the Social Insurance sector to effectively perform its tasks, contributing to ensuring social security in the area.

Provincial Social Insurance officers guide and propagate people to participate in social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

Promote solutions to rapidly increase the coverage of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance participants; strengthen the collection of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance; ensure the completion of the set targets. Strive to have the rate of people participating in health insurance reach 93% by the end of 2023; the rate of the labor force participating in social insurance reach 24.9%.

Organize the implementation of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance policies and regimes; ensure the rights of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance participants. Strengthen the management of social insurance and unemployment insurance payments; organize full, timely, and correct payments to beneficiaries; and implement social security policies in the province.

Comrade Hoang Van Minh - Party Secretary, Director of Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance presented 20 health insurance cards to households in difficult circumstances in Huu Kiem commune (Ky Son). Photo: CSCC

Implement solutions to manage and use health insurance medical examination and treatment costs in accordance with the assigned budget. Improve the quality of appraisal work; focus on warning and controlling health insurance medical examination and treatment costs; ensure timely and full benefits for participants in conjunction with the roadmap for universal health insurance.

Accelerate administrative reform progress, focusing on administrative procedure reform associated with information technology application, promote the implementation of Project 06 of the Prime Minister, digital transformation in all areas of operation; continue to expand the installation of Vss-ID application, electronic transactions in the implementation of social insurance and health insurance policies.

The Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union guides people to install the VssID application. Photo: CSCC

Focus on inspection, supervision and urging of units during the implementation process; strengthen inter-sectoral inspection and surprise specialized inspection at units showing signs of arrears and abuse of social insurance and health insurance funds.

Continue to promote the dissemination of laws on social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance, focusing on clarifying the role and significance of social insurance and health insurance in the social security system. Mobilize the coordination of the entire political system, promote the role of the grassroots level, especially the commune and ward levels, in mobilizing people to voluntarily participate in social insurance and family health insurance.

Representatives of Nghe An Social Insurance and Vinh City Department of Education and Training presented health insurance cards to students. Photo courtesy of My Ha

Effectively exploiting data on households participating in health insurance is associated with expanding and improving the quality of the collection service system in the area. Strengthening propaganda to raise awareness of workers on the Law on Social Insurance and Health Insurance to help workers understand the policies of the Party and State to protect their legitimate interests.

Strengthening discipline, administrative discipline, public ethics; building a team of cadres with qualities, capacity, prestige, equal to the task; ensuring the best implementation of regimes and policies for units, businesses and people./.