Tracking the process of participating in social insurance and unemployment insurance: Protecting workers' rights

However, the VssID application is one of the most used utilities by workers because of its convenience, quick updates and ease of use.

Transparency in the contribution and benefit process of employees

Mr. Nguyen Duc Van (residing in Cua Nam ward, Vinh city) has worked for nearly 20 years and has worked in many different units. This year, after receiving his Tet bonus, he was concerned because his "1 month salary" bonus was lower than that of his colleagues. Opening the VssID application, he reviewed his entire social insurance participation process and discovered a mistake in the salary increase milestones, after which his request was promptly resolved by the agency. Talking about this, Mr. Nguyen Duc Van said: In the past, we often only knew about the regimes and social insurance payment periods through the unit and at times almost "left it" to the agency. Currently, thanks to installing the VssID application, we are regularly updated on our social insurance participation process, I find it very convenient.

Workers install the VssID system to track the social insurance payment process. Photo: Thanh Hien

As a freelance worker, Mr. Vo Van Dai (residing in Nghi Kim commune, Vinh city) participates in voluntary social insurance and family health insurance in the locality. With an income of about 6 - 7 million VND/month, each month he sets aside 1.2 million VND to participate in voluntary social insurance. Mr. Dai shared: participatingVoluntary social insuranceis very practical, like "a few small things make a storm" so that when you are old and weak, you will receive a pension and a free health insurance card to ensure your old age.

Mr. Dai added: To monitor his social insurance and health insurance payment process, the social insurance collection agent instructed him to install the VssID application on his smartphone. After each time paying voluntary social insurance and health insurance, he opened the application to check the information about the participation process. He found this application very convenient and easy to use, with just a few steps to have the necessary information. If there are any errors, he will know immediately to contact the social insurance collection agent or the social insurance agency for adjustment. "I find that the VssID application helps voluntary social insurance participants protect their own rights, in case the social insurance collection agent is slow to complete the procedure, I can also know," Mr. Dai affirmed.

Employees can also track their social insurance payment progress through their social insurance books. Photo: Thanh Hien

To track their social insurance and unemployment insurance participation process, employees can look it up via: social insurance book, VssID application, Vietnam Social Insurance Electronic Information Portal, National Public Service Portal, SMS lookup service via switchboard 8079... but looking up social insurance participation time via VssID application has many advantages, not only fast and convenient but also ensures accuracy.

Workers' rights are protected

In fact, there are many employees who do not regularly monitor their social insurance participation process. Only when they change jobs or apply for social insurance benefits do they find out that the company has not fully paid social insurance for them, which will cause them to be at a disadvantage in terms of benefits.

When participating in social insurance and unemployment insurance, employees need to proactively monitor their participation process. Thereby, employees not only protect their legitimate rights but also perform the role of supervising the obligations of paying social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance of employers. Contribute to publicizing and transparent information and limiting the situation of debt of paying social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance for employees of units and enterprises.

The Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union guides people to install the VssID application. Photo courtesy

Looking up social insurance quickly and accurately is one of the necessary skills for employees when participating in social insurance, helping them grasp the necessary information to serve their personal or collective work. There are many cases where employees need to declare their social insurance participation information such as: when starting work at a new company, when making personal documents, when making a file to receive social insurance benefits... However, employees do not always have their social insurance book with them or remember the relevant information. On the other hand, those who want to participate in social insurance also need to grasp information about the social insurance agency; social insurance participating unit; collection point, social insurance collection agent...

Social insurance plays an important role in ensuring social security, being a solid support for workers when they retire. Social insurance agencies always strive to improve the quality of service, increasingly ensuring better benefits for workers. And more than anyone else, workers need to proactively monitor and grasp information to ensure their own social insurance and unemployment insurance benefits.

Employees can look up their social insurance and unemployment insurance participation time via:

- Social insurance book

- VssID application - Digital social insurance on smartphones.

(See instructions for registering an account on the VssID application at:https://youtu.be/oKnE99ECvCw;

See instructions for looking up participation progress on the VssID application at:https://youtu.be/R3dqKZ5gJEY)

- Vietnam Social Security Electronic Information Portal at the access address:https://baohiemxahoi.gov.vn/tracuu/Pages/tra-cuu-dong-bao-hiem.aspx

- SMS service to look up via Call Center 8079, compose a message with the syntax: BH QT Social Insurance code send to 8079. In which, the Social Insurance code is the code on the Social Insurance book or the last 10 numbers on the employee's Health Insurance card for the old Health Insurance card model; for the new Health Insurance card model, the Social Insurance code is the Health Insurance card code (including 10 numeric characters) printed on the front of the card.