Some notes for people who have not received support money from the Unemployment Insurance Fund

According to the Vietnam Social Security (VSS), as of November 8, the Social Security Administrations of provinces and cities have resolved support for over 10.3 million workers with a total support amount of over VND 24.6 billion. It is estimated that there are still about 3 million workers who have not received support. Therefore, workers should pay attention to the following contents:

Be wary of fake messages announcing the receipt of support money.

Many workers have recently reported receiving text messages from the number 052... informing them about receiving benefits from the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) for workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with the content "You have not received the COVID-19 subsidy yet, please log in to tinyurl.com/kxytdc8z (or shorturl.at/frFHU) to get it, after the deadline it will not be accepted".

According to the confirmation of Vietnam Social Security, this is a fake message, the social security agency has not sent any message with the above content. Employees should not access the link sent in the message, to avoid cases of account hacking or information theft...

All messages from the social insurance agency are sent from “BHXHVN” or “BHXH HA NOI”, “BHXH TP. HCM”… Or the employee can contact the nearest Social Insurance agency to their place of residence for support because all information about the Unemployment Insurance payment process is stored on the industry’s database system.

The deadline for receiving money for working people is November 30, 2021.

Decision 28/2021/QD-TTg stipulates that by November 10, 2021 at the latest, businesses must complete sending the list of employees eligible for support if there are any adjustments.

No later than 20 days, the social insurance agency will make support payments to employees (according to points b and c, clause 1, Article 3, Decision 28/2021/QD-TTg).

Thus, by November 30, 2021 at the latest, employees working at businesses will receive support money. Therefore, if they have not received support money at this time, employees should not be too worried.

After November 30, 2021, if you have not received the money, you must go through the procedures yourself.

This note is for employees who are working and participating in unemployment insurance at enterprises. Specifically, Clause 3, Article 3 of Decision 28/2021/QD-TTg clearly states: After November 30, 2021, employees subject to Clause 1 of this Article have not received support, the employees shall comply with the provisions of Clause 2 of this Article.

That is, after November 30, 2021, employees working at businesses that have not received support money must proactively go through the procedures, as in the case of employees who have quit their jobs and stopped participating in unemployment insurance.

To do this procedure, employees print out form No. 04, fill in all information and submit it to the nearest social insurance agency.

In addition, employees can do it online via the VssID application or on the Public Service Portal of Vietnam Social Security.

December 31, 2021 is the deadline to receive support money for people who have left their jobs.

According to Point b, Clause 2, Article 3 of Decision 28/2021/QD-TTg, the social insurance agency shall pay support money to employees no later than December 31, 2021.

This is the deadline to receive support money for workers who have quit their jobs or workers who are working but have not received money after November 30, 2021 must go through the procedures themselves.

Therefore, workers need to pay attention to this timeline. If the application is complete and valid, workers will definitely receive support money at this time at the latest.