Nghe An aims to increase the rate of people participating in social insurance

On the afternoon of October 15, the Provincial People's Committee held a working session to listen to and give opinions on the Draft Plan to implement Action Program No. 88-Ctr/TU dated June 20, 2019 of the Provincial Party Committee on implementing Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW of the Central Executive Committee (term XII) on reforming social insurance policies in Nghe An province.

Comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were leaders of relevant departments, branches and units.

Provincial Social Insurance officers conduct propaganda on Social Insurance and Voluntary Insurance for people in Hung Dung Ward (Vinh City). Photo: Thanh Chung

The development of the Action Plan No. 88-Ctr/TU aims to organize and implement the Action Plan to ensure compliance with the goals and guiding viewpoints of the Provincial Party Committee on reforming social insurance policies in the province.

Specifically, gradually and steadily expand the coverage of social insurance, towards the goal of universal social insurance; improve the capacity, effectiveness and efficiency of state management and develop a streamlined, professional, modern, reliable and transparent social insurance policy implementation system.

The Draft Plan for implementing Action Program No. 88-Ctr/TU developed by Nghe An Social Insurance has set out specific targets from now until the time frames of 2021, 2025 and 2030.

In the period of 2019 - 2021, Nghe An strives to have 35% of people of working age in the locality participating in social insurance; 28% of the workforce participating in unemployment insurance; 45% of people over retirement age receiving monthly pensions, social insurance and social retirement benefits; the rate of electronic transactions reaching 100%; implementing level 4 online public services...

By 2025, 45% of the working-age population will participate in social insurance; by 2030, 60% of the working-age population will participate in social insurance.

Comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the content of the draft plan that the Social Insurance Agency had drafted. Photo: Thanh Chung

To achieve the above goals, the draft Plan sets out 6 main groups of tasks and solutions. In each task and solution, the presiding unit and coordinating unit for relevant departments and branches are clearly assigned.

At the meeting, the opinions of the representatives of departments and branches expressed their high agreement with the content of the draft plan. Some opinions suggested that the drafting agency amend points that were considered inappropriate to the actual situation and assigned tasks.

Concluding the meeting, Mr. Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the preparation of the Provincial Social Insurance and requested the unit to absorb the opinions of the delegates to continue perfecting the draft plan to submit to the Provincial People's Committee in the upcoming regular meeting./.