Twenty members of the ASEAN Social Security Association (ASSA) yesterday signed a joint statement on social security on the occasion of the 35^th ASSA Board Meeting and 20^th ASSA establishment anniversary held in Khánh Hòa Province’s Nha Trang city.

Social security mechanism and regulations will have to be changed since the fourth industrial revolution and free movement of labour have led to new kinds of jobs and ways of working, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has said.

Trần Đình Liệu, Deputy Director of Việt Nam Social Insurance, speaks to the newspaper Tiền Phong (Vanguard) on his agency’s target to have all Vietnamese students join the health insurance scheme

Cao Lãnh District is the first locality in Đồng Tháp Province to pilot a new "portable" health insurance policy, which has had positive results after five months of implementation.

About 90 per cent of social insurance funds are currently invested in government bonds (G-bonds), Đào Việt Ánh, deputy general director of Việt Nam Social Security (VSS) said at a seminar last week.

The Cần Thơ city People’s Committee plans to set up action programmes for healthcare services for old people to improve the quality of their life and foster social development.

The Government will continuously fine-tune legal regulations to encourage and popularise the payment of public services through banks, deputy governor of the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) Nguyễn Kim Anh said at a forum on accelerating the payment of public services via banks held in Hà Nội on Friday.

Southeast Asian migrant workers are no longer just emigrating to developed countries, increasingly they’re moving within the region.

As many as 91,000 female employees who retire between 2018 and 2021 will be able to receive between 0.2 and 12 per cent of their pensions as a bonus as well as their current pensions.

Ministry of Finance (MoF) has asked the Government to stop the electricity subsidy for poor households from 2019 for its negative impacts on the national poverty elimination policies.