Which subjects are subject to the management costs of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance?

The Prime Minister has just signed and issued Decision No. 15/2016/QD-TTG on the management costs of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance for the period 2016 - 2018.

The subjects of application of this Decision include: units under the Vietnam Social Security; Social Security of the Ministry of National Defense, Social Security of the Ministry of Public Security; Local Employment Service Centers, Unemployment Insurance organizations under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs assigned to perform the tasks of receiving dossiers, resolving unemployment insurance regimes and related tasks on unemployment insurance according to the provisions of the law on unemployment insurance.

Workers declare their unemployment insurance benefits at the one-stop department of Vinh City Social Insurance.

Accordingly, the management costs of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance are used to perform the tasks specified in Article 9 of Decision No. 60/2015/QD-TTg dated November 27, 2015 of the Prime Minister on the financial management mechanism of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance and the management costs of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance; the annual deductions from the sources are as follows:

The social insurance management cost is equal to 2.3% of the estimated social insurance revenue and expenditure (excluding health insurance premiums for social insurance beneficiaries), deducted from the profits from investment activities of the social insurance fund.

Unemployment insurance management costs are equal to 2.3% of the estimated revenue and expenditure of unemployment insurance (excluding health insurance contributions for unemployment benefit recipients), deducted from the unemployment insurance fund.

The health insurance management cost is equal to 5% of the estimated health insurance premium collection, deducted from the 10% of health insurance premiums reserved for the reserve fund and health insurance fund management cost.

The Prime Minister also requested that Vietnam Social Security be responsible for guiding its affiliated units, the Ministry of National Defense Social Security and the Ministry of Public Security Social Security to organize the implementation of tasks, ensuring the effective use of management costs with the results of developing participants in social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance; reforming procedures and improving service quality; organizing the apparatus of social insurance agencies according to job positions, in accordance with assigned tasks and streamlining the payroll according to regulations.

The Ministry of Finance is responsible for inspecting and supervising the implementation of this Decision to ensure compliance with regulations. In the third quarter of 2018, the Ministry of Finance will preside over and coordinate with the Vietnam Social Security and relevant ministries and branches to summarize and evaluate the implementation results of this Decision and report to the Government to submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee to decide on the management costs of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance in the next period./.

Vietnam Social Security