Social Security enhances inspections to prevent fraud: Deputy PM
The Vietnam Social Security must enhance inspections and join hands with relevant agencies to ensure transparency and prevent health insurance fraud, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said.
Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue at the meeting with Vietnam Social Insurance (Photo: baochinhphu.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) must enhance inspectionsand join hands with relevant agencies to ensure transparency and prevent healthinsurance fraud, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said at a meeting withthe VSS on January 4.
He pointed out that coverage of social insurance in the country only stood at29 percent of the total population, far below the Party Central Committee Resolution21-NQ/TW’s set target of 50 percent by 2020, and asked the VSS to channelefforts into increasing the number of participants and branching out socialinsurance fund.
The VSS should join hands with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Defenceand the Ministry of Public Security to ensure transparent bidding for medicinescovered by health insurance as well as other medical commodities, Hue noticed.
At the event, he also hailed robust achievements made by the sector in 2017,expressing his impression at total amount of social insurance collection in theyear, which was estimated at 290 trillion VND (12.8 billion USD) - the highestnumber since 2007 when the Law on Social Insurance took effect.
The VSS reaped a fruitful year thanks to its efforts to renovate administrativeprocedures, apply information technology in management as well as effectivelyimplement online public services.
According to report of the VSS Deputy Director Pham Luong Son, 13.83 millionpeople joined social insurance, 79.9 million people hold health insurance cards,and some 11.4 million people buy unemployment insurance.
The VSS spent 270 billion VND (11.9 million USD) on payment of social, healthand unemployment insurance. Frequent inspections helped social insurance debts standbelow 3 percent, the lowest level ever and down 0.8 percent from 2016.
Associal insurance and health insurance are the two key pillars in the nationalsocial welfare, contributing to ensuring social security for people, the VSSshould work towards creating a professional, transparent, reliable andefficient system helping spread social and health insurance coverage to allpeople, the Deputy PM concluded.-VNA
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Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue at the meeting with Vietnam Social Insurance (Photo: baochinhphu.vn) 
