No worries about losing your social security book, health insurance card with lifetime code

(Baonghean) - Currently, in Nghe An, each person participating in health insurance and social insurance is given a unique code for life.

» The Provincial People's Committee directs the implementation of electronic transactions in the field of social insurance and the issuance of social insurance codes.

Participants only need to provide their social insurance number to enjoy convenient social insurance and health insurance benefits nationwide.

The social insurance number is the unique personal identification number of the participant, issued by the social insurance agency. This number is recorded on the social insurance book and health insurance card, helping to complete the management process throughout the process of participating in payment and enjoying the regime. The social insurance number consists of 10 digits (the first 2 digits are the province code, the next 8 digits are natural numbers) and is the social insurance book number, and at the same time the last 10 digits of the health insurance card.

A unique, lifelong social insurance number brings many benefits to people in the process of using health insurance cards for medical examination and treatment.

BSE Vietnam Electronics Co., Ltd. (Nam Cam Industrial Park, Quan Hanh, Nghi Loc) is one of the enterprises that the provincial Social Insurance has soon implemented the issuance of social insurance codes for employees. Ms. Nguyen Thi Linh (Hung Dung Ward, Vinh City) - a worker of the company happily shared: "When we had information about issuing social insurance codes for employees, the social insurance agency came to our place to guide us on the procedures, how to look up and check our social insurance and health insurance payment process. We were very happy to see that the procedure was very quick and simple, we only needed to provide the social insurance code for the social insurance officer to enter into the software, and in less than 5 minutes we had the results."

For businesses, the implementation of a lifetime social insurance code also brings many practical benefits. Ms. Bui Thi Ngoc - Head of Human Resources Department of Haivina Kim Lien Company Limited said: “The company currently has about 2,300 employees. If in the past, when there were new employees, the company would have to go directly to the social insurance agency to declare information on the social insurance form for employees, now it is only necessary to enter the social insurance code for employees via the electronic system, saving a lot of time and costs. Moreover, the issuance of social insurance codes makes it much more convenient for us to check the social insurance participation time and salary of each employee in the company.”

Providing social insurance codes to participants not only improves management efficiency, reduces pressure and workload in printing and issuing social insurance books and health insurance cards annually; overcomes the current situation of duplicate issuance of multiple social insurance books and health insurance cards for one person, but also lays the foundation for implementing the issuance of electronic cards to replace social insurance books and health insurance cards to replace paper ones in the near future.

The social insurance code is a natural number consisting of 10 digits, which is the social insurance book number and the last 10 digits of the health insurance card. Photo: Internet

When participants are given a social insurance code, the process of paying and receiving social insurance and health insurance for each person will be strictly and accurately controlled. In addition, the current process of changing and issuing new social insurance and health insurance cards has saved a lot of time for both the social insurance agency and participants.

In particular, when going to see a doctor or get medical treatment, people do not have to worry about forgetting or losing their health insurance card. They only need to remember their health insurance card number, along with their identification documents, to still have their medical examination and treatment rights resolved.

For health insurance examination and treatment facilities, the issuance of social insurance codes has limited the use of fake health insurance cards to abuse the health insurance fund; Health examination and treatment facilities can exploit and check information about health insurance patients in the database (medical history, drug resistance status...) managed by the social insurance agency to serve the treatment work.

For the participant management unit, after the implementation period, the effectiveness is clearly seen through the shortening of the time to handle procedures and support for lookups, the procedures and information that need to be declared to handle the regimes as before to submit to the Social Insurance agency when handling the social insurance and health insurance regimes of participants have been cut, because the Social Insurance agency only needs to enter the participant's code and exploit information in the database managed by the Social Insurance agency to create procedures and registration files for social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance (UI); create files to adjust the personal information, contribution level, and benefit level of participants...

As for participants, after the time of issuing the social insurance code, creating maximum favorable conditions when resolving social insurance regimes and health insurance examination and treatment, updating the health insurance participation time for 5 consecutive years for participants is accurate, thus ensuring benefits when examining and treating patients.

At the same time, when continuing to register for social insurance and health insurance, confirming the participation process and resolving social insurance and health insurance regimes, participants do not need to present documents or repeat procedures as when participating for the first time, they only need to remember and report to the social insurance agency the social insurance code when doing the procedures to enjoy convenient social insurance and health insurance regimes nationwide.

Thus, after the implementation period, the issuance of social insurance codes at Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance has been carried out synchronously and effectively, receiving high support from social insurance and health insurance participants in the area, employers, and medical facilities in the whole province, in accordance with the direction of Vietnam Social Insurance Director General Nguyen Thi Minh: The work of issuing unique social insurance codes to insurance participants is an important task, of key nature, deciding the effectiveness of the whole industry in administrative reform, towards professionalization and modernization of the policy management apparatus.

Nguyen Ba Cuong