The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has used more than VND45.444 trillion (US$1.96 billion) from the unemployment insurance fund to pay for employees and employers over the past two years, given serious COVID-19-induced difficulties facing production and business activities.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS)’s digital transformation efforts have helped provide chip-based ID cards for health insurance at more than 4,000 medical facilities across the country.

Experts have recommended Vietnam work to expand the coverage of social insurance and limit the number of people claiming lump-sum payments.

Ho Chi Minh City lured US$1.28 billion worth of foreign investment in the first fourth months of 2022, an annual rise of 12.18%, reported the municipal Department of Planning and Investment.

Director-General of the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Nguyen The Manh asked the World Bank (WB) to help the agency further improve the quality and effectiveness of its social and health insurance services during his meeting with WB Country Director for Vietnam Carolyn Turk in Hanoi on April 21.

Member businesses of the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) always stand ready and want to implement projects and provide resources to help Vietnam improve its health insurance policies and medical system, said Michael Michalak, Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director of USABC.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) and the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) on March 9 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on realising health insurance policies.

Hung Thinh Land JSC, MB AGEAS Life Insurance Company Limited and Tin Viet Finance JSC are among the top 10 in the 500 fastest-growing companies in Vietnam (FAST500) this year as announced by the Vietnam Report JSC and the VietNamNet e-newspaper on March 9.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has exerted extra efforts in simplifying public administrative procedures and cutting time and costs for social and health insurance card holders and businesses.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Government has granted approval to a proposal put forward by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to reopen the country’s borders to international travel on March 15.