Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance: Many highlights in 2024
Identifying Social Insurance and Health Insurance as two important social policies, the main pillars of the social security system, Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance always strives to effectively implement these policies, contributing to ensuring political and social stability and sustainable security for people in the area.
Nghe An Newspaper had a conversation with Mr. Hoang Van Minh - Director of Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance about the industry's milestones in 2024.
PV: Overcoming difficulties, in 2024, Nghe An Social Insurance sector achieved many positive results. Can you tell us about the outstanding results that the sector achieved in 2024?
GrandfatherHoang Van Minh:2024 is a year of high concentration and acceleration to basically complete the goals and targets of the Party Congress resolutions at all levels. With the attention and direction ofSocial insuranceVietnam, Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, Provincial People's Committee; together with the close coordination of sectors, unions and authorities at all levels, the continuous efforts of the collective of cadres and employees of the whole sector, Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance has overcome difficulties and challenges to complete the assigned tasks.

Specifically: In 2024, Nghe An Social Insurance advised the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Council, and Provincial People's Committee to issue many directive documents, creating a legal corridor to effectively implement Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies in the area. In particular, it advised the Provincial Party Standing Committee to issue Directive No. 30-CT/TU on strengthening the Party's leadership in implementing Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies.
The Directive clearly states the objectives: Strengthening leadership, direction, improving the effectiveness of implementing social insurance and health insurance policies in the province, contributing to ensuring social security and economic development; striving to bring Nghe An out of the group of provinces with low social insurance participation rates, completing the objectives according to Action Program No. 88-CTr/TU, dated June 20, 2019 of the Provincial Party Committee on implementing Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW.

By the end of 2024, the provincial Social Insurance has basically completed the assigned targets in collecting and developing participants. It is estimated that by the end of December 2024, the whole province will have 3,105,812 people participating in Social Insurance and Health Insurance.
The number of people participating in Health Insurance is 2,970,132 people, reaching a coverage rate of 94.0% of the population, completing the plan assigned by the Provincial People's Committee. The number of people participating in Social Insurance is 430,771 people, reaching a coverage rate of 25.80% compared to the working-age labor force; exceeding 0.10% compared to the plan assigned by the Provincial People's Committee.

Along with expanding coverage, the Provincial Social Insurance always focuses on resolving and paying Social Insurance and Unemployment Insurance correctly, sufficiently and promptly for employees, ensuring the right to medical examination and treatment.Health insurancefor participants.
In 2024, the Provincial Social Insurance received and promptly resolved for more than 175,000 people receiving Social Insurance and Unemployment Insurance benefits. The total expenditure on Social Insurance, Health Insurance, and Unemployment Insurance was 18,464 billion VND, of which: Social Insurance and Unemployment Insurance expenditure was 13,149 billion VND; Health Insurance examination and treatment expenditure was 5,315 billion VND for 5.8 million people in the province who received Health Insurance examination and treatment.

The digital transformation and implementation of the Government's Project 06 have been vigorously implemented by the Provincial Social Insurance, bringing many benefits to serve people and businesses. Currently, the whole province has 531/531 (100%) medical examination and treatment facilities performing health insurance card information lookup using chip-embedded Citizen Identification Cards with the number of successful lookups being 4,347,661.
The whole province has 94.65% of people receiving social insurance and unemployment benefits through personal accounts. Deploying essential online public services according to the Prime Minister's Decision in the electronic environment, while promoting propaganda to encourage people to use them.

In order to facilitate and satisfy the people and businesses, Nghe An Social Insurance has promoted the application of information technology and administrative reform, focusing on administrative procedure reform and the application of information technology to administrative procedure reform. Maintaining the reception of documents through many forms: through the one-stop department, through public postal services, through electronic transactions, through the Provincial Public Administration Service Center and the national public service portal, the Nghe An Provincial Administrative Procedure Information System to facilitate people in the transaction process.
It is estimated that by the end of 2024, the total number of records received through the reception and return of results department under the one-stop and one-stop mechanism will be 577,704 records. The rate of records resolved before the deadline and on time will reach over 99.6%.
PV: Through the impressive results in 2024, what lessons has the provincial Social Insurance sector learned, sir?
Mr. Hoang Van Minh:To achieve the above results, the Provincial Social Insurance had to overcome many difficulties and challenges, thereby drawing valuable lessons for the next stage, which are:
Continue to proactively advise and seek the attention and direction of the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Council, and Provincial People's Committee. At the same time, actively and proactively coordinate with all levels, sectors, and organizations, mobilize the participation of the entire political system to synchronously and effectively implement the Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies in the area, promptly remove difficulties and obstacles in the process of implementing tasks. Consider this a key factor, deciding the effectiveness of implementing the Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies...

Focus on and promote the dissemination of policies and laws on Social Insurance and Health Insurance regularly and continuously in many appropriate forms, ensuring that all people have full access to information on policies.
Thereby, raising awareness of the entire political system and people about the role and significance of Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies in the social security system, creating a favorable foundation for implementing the tasks of the industry.

Improve the service quality of the industry, ensure full and timely benefits for participants of Social Insurance, Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, aiming at the satisfaction of participants and beneficiaries of policies. Consider it the most effective communication method, a decisive factor for sustainable development and a measure to evaluate the performance of Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance.
The results achieved in 2024 will be the premise and motivation for the entire Nghe An Social Insurance sector to continue to make more efforts, accompany the people and units, businesses in 2025 and the following time; determined to complete the set goals, practically towards the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam Social Insurance, Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance./.
PV: Thank you!