Acknowledging many comments to perfect the draft revised Law on Social Insurance

On the afternoon of September 27, the Provincial National Assembly Delegation held a conference to survey the implementation of policies and laws on social insurance and to collect opinions.draft Law on Social Insurance(amended) at the provincial Social Insurance agency.

Comrade Thai Thi An Chung - Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation and Comrade Hoang Van Minh - Director of Nghe An Social Insurance co-chaired the conference.

At the conference, the provincial Social Insurance agency reported on the implementation of policies and laws on social insurance in Nghe An province, from January 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023.

Accordingly, in recent times, the provincial Social Insurance agency has focused on disseminating and popularizing social insurance policies and laws to all classes of people in many forms; proactively advising local Party committees and authorities to issue or promulgate documents according to their authority. The payment of social insurance benefits to beneficiaries is carried out fully, promptly, and in accordance with the regime, ensuring savings and avoiding waste of the Social Insurance Fund. The management of finance, assets, and accounting is carried out strictly and in accordance with regulations. The coordination with Party committees, authorities, departments, branches, and sectors in the province in implementing social insurance policies and laws is carried out closely and regularly...

In addition to the positive results achieved, the Social Insurance Agency has shared the difficulties and obstacles in the implementation of policies and laws on social insurance. In particular, the situation of social insurance debt is still common in enterprises, including administrative units receiving State budget.

From the difficulties and problems, the provincial Social Insurance agency has made recommendations to the National Assembly to consider amending and supplementing the Law on Social Insurance. At the same time, it is recommended that the Government consider increasing the support level for voluntary social insurance participants compared to the current support level to increase social insurance coverage according to Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW; recommend that Vietnam Social Insurance coordinate with relevant ministries and branches to find solutions to handle social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance debts for debtors that are no longer operating, missing, dissolved, or bankrupt, in order to reduce the local debt ratio and ensure legitimate rights forworkers

In addition, the Provincial Social Insurance also has specific recommendations for the People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee and relevant departments, branches, and agencies in supporting additional contributions from the local budget (in addition to the general support level as prescribed) for voluntary social insurance participants, in propaganda and coordination work...

At the conference, the provincial Social Insurance agency compiled and exchanged comments on the Draft Law.Social insurance(amended). Notable issues include social insurance coverage, voluntary social insurance contribution rates, penalties for social insurance debt, one-time social insurance benefit receipt, social insurance profiteering, conflicts between laws leading to inadequacies in regime resolution, etc. At the same time, the Survey Team also discussed and clarified recommendations and proposals previously recorded from departments, branches and units.

Concluding the meeting, Comrade Thai Thi An Chung acknowledged the positive results that the provincial Social Insurance Agency has strived to achieve in the past time. At the same time, she hoped that the Social Insurance Agency would continue to seek solutions to overcome existing problems, especially the need to strengthen insurance coverage, increase the rate of voluntary social insurance participation, and limit the situation of withdrawing social insurance at one time...

He also thanked the provincial Social Insurance agency for its cooperation and acknowledged the delegates' dedicated and quality comments on the draft revised Law on Social Insurance. In the coming time, the Provincial National Assembly Delegation hopes to continue receiving comments and recommendations from the provincial Social Insurance agency to complete the content and submit it to the National Assembly at the 6th session in the coming time./.