Vietnam Social Security and the Ministry of Public Security held a signing ceremony of the Coordination Regulations.

Afternoon of January 21,Social insuranceVietnam and the Ministry of Public Security held a signing ceremony for the Coordination Regulation on the implementation of tasks of protecting national security, ensuring social order and safety, and combating crimes in the fields of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance.

The signing ceremony was held online. Lieutenant General Nguyen Duy Ngoc, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security and General DirectorSocial insuranceVietnam Nguyen The Manh chaired the signing ceremony. Nghe An bridge point had the participation of leaders of Nghe An Provincial Police and Social Insurance.

Nghe An bridge attended the signing ceremony. Photo: Thanh Chung

Over the years, functional units of the Ministry of Public Security and Vietnam Social Security have coordinated regularly, closely and effectively in many areas of work, especially in the fields of protecting internal political security; preventing and combating crimes and law violations; disseminating and propagating laws; conducting inter-sectoral inspections and examinations; building and sharing specialized databases; implementing social insurance and health insurance regimes and policies for police officers and soldiers and their relatives.

Notably, from 2017 to 2021, agencies and units of the two sectors have coordinated in cross-sectoral inspections and examinations of nearly 6,000 employers and medical examination and treatment facilities, contributing to proactively preventing, detecting and promptly combating and stopping violations of the law, especially acts of fraud and profiteering in the fields of social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance.

In 2021, the two sectors successfully connected and shared the national population database and the national insurance database. To date, Vietnam Social Security has coordinated with the Ministry of Public Security to share about 33 million citizen information in the National Insurance Database with the National Population Database for authentication, contributing to promoting the development of digital government, digital economy, and digital society.

In order to meet the requirements of the new situation, promptly resolve urgent issues arising in practice, and at the same time further enhance the effectiveness of coordination between the two sectors, the Ministry of Public Security and Vietnam Social Security have signed a Coordination Regulation.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Duy Ngoc and General Director Nguyen The Manh signed the Coordination Regulations between the Ministry of Public Security and Vietnam Social Security. Photo: Thanh Chung

The Regulation includes 03 Chapters and 09 Articles, fully regulating the scope of regulation, applicable subjects, purposes, principles, contents, forms, and responsibilities of coordination between the Ministry of Public Security and Vietnam Social Security in performing the tasks of protecting national security, ensuring social order and safety, fighting and preventing crimes in implementing social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance regimes and policies, and is applied to agencies and units under the Ministry of Public Security and Vietnam Social Security at all levels.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, General Director of Vietnam Social Security Nguyen The Manh requested units under Vietnam Social Security, Social Security of provinces and centrally-run cities to closely follow the content of the Regulation, closely coordinate with the Public Security of provinces and cities based on the actual situation in the locality, concretize the Regulation into programs and plans for implementation, helping the two sectors to successfully complete the assigned political tasks, contributing to ensuring social security of the country.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Duy Ngoc - Deputy Minister of Public Security also suggested that after signing the Regulation, the Public Security of units and localities need to seriously and effectively implement the Regulation on coordination between the two sectors; the units assigned the role of the Standing Agency of the Ministry of Public Security and Vietnam Social Security need to regularly inspect, urge and evaluate the results of coordination in implementing the Regulation nationwide to have measures and solutions to promptly handle and remove difficulties and obstacles.

On this occasion, the Ministry of Public Security awarded the "Protecting National Security" Medal to 12 comrades of the Vietnam Social Security for their many contributions to the cause of protecting national security./.