Various forms of social insurance fund exploitation

Attending the meeting were Deputy Heads of the Provincial Delegation of National Assembly Deputies: Nguyen Thanh Hien; Tran Van Mao. Also attending were representatives of provincial departments, branches and sectors. Photo: Thanh Le

Social Insurance Fund (SI), Health Insurance Fund (HIF), Unemployment Insurance Fund (UI) are financial funds independent of the State budget, formed from contributions of employees and employers and with support from the State.

The fund is managed centrally, uniformly, publicly, transparently, and used for the right purposes according to the provisions of the Law on Social Insurance, the Law on Health Insurance, the Law on Employment, and is accounted for independently according to the component funds.

Director of Nghe An Social Insurance Le Truong Giang said: The biggest goal of unemployment insurance is to support workers to reintegrate into the workforce, however, the implementation is currently limited to financial support. Photo: Thanh Le

Nghe An is one of the localities with the largest number of policy beneficiaries in the country. Every month, the provincial Social Insurance pays social insurance and unemployment insurance benefits to about 170,000 people with an amount of over 650 billion VND.

By the end of 2018, the total revenue from social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance in the province reached 5,692 billion VND, with a total outstanding debt of 205 billion VND, accounting for 3.63% of the amount of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance receivable.

Reflecting on the difficulties and obstacles in implementing the Social Insurance Fund, Director of the Provincial Social Insurance Le Truong Giang was concerned: There are many forms and behaviors of violating the law on social insurance. The situation of evasion, arrears, fraud, and profiteering from social insurance in localities and enterprises is complicated, affecting the rights of workers.

Director of the Provincial Civil Judgment Enforcement Department Hoang Thi Thu Trang said that voters complained about the cumbersome procedures in paying social insurance to retirees via post. Photo: Thanh Le

The head of the provincial Social Insurance sector cited that in 2018, the provincial Social Insurance reviewed all enterprises with tax codes provided by the Tax Department in the province, and the result was that 24% (1,304/5,441 enterprises) of enterprises that had not participated were subject to compulsory social insurance participation.

In addition, the provincial Social Insurance reflects that the management work between the Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs sector and the work of suing units with outstanding social insurance debts assigned to the Trade Union organization face many shortcomings and legal problems...

"The Party and State are requested to continue institutionalizing social insurance as a pillar policy on social security. The Government needs to have more regulations on handling outstanding debts in social insurance and social insurance policies to create equality in implementing social insurance policies for businesses," said the Director of the provincial Social Insurance.

Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation Nguyen Thanh Hien concluded the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le

At the meeting, delegates requested the Social Insurance sector to clarify the overspending of health insurance, the procedures for paying social insurance to retirees via post offices, which people have reported are still cumbersome; the effectiveness of paying unemployment insurance, the ability to balance the health insurance fund to pay for HIV-infected patients, etc.

Concluding the meeting, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation Nguyen Thanh Hien requested that the provincial Social Insurance should do a good job of advising the Party Committee and local authorities, and closely coordinate with departments, branches and sectors in implementing social insurance and health insurance policies.

The sector also needs to strengthen specialized inspections on social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance payments; check the implementation of social insurance policies to limit social insurance evasion and abuse of social insurance and unemployment insurance payments.

At the same time, the provincial Social Insurance needs to continue administrative reform, improve the quality of staff and civil servants, and create more favorable conditions for workers to participate in social insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance, etc.