The government instructs the insurance company to eliminate unnecessary expenditures

DNHN - The government mandates social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance units to analyze, conserve, and reduce needless expenditures within the scope of the contents regularly. Management charges are imposed to guarantee job completion.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai recently signed Decision No. 583/QD-TTG dated May 13, 2022, which assigns estimates of social insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance, and insurance administration expenses. In 2022, there will be social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance.

The decision states that the social insurance management cost in 2022 is equivalent to 1.57 per cent of the estimated social insurance earnings and expenditures (excluding health insurance premiums paid for social insurance beneficiaries), which is deducted from the social insurance premium. The social insurance fund's return on investment

In 2022, 1.57 per cent of the estimated unemployment insurance income and expenses (but not the health insurance premiums for people who get unemployment insurance) will be taken out of the unemployment insurance fund to pay for the cost of running unemployment insurance. 

In 2022, the health insurance administration cost is 3.5% of the premium taken from the fund. In 2022, social, unemployment, and health insurance will bring in 464,658,755 VND and spend 376,976,636 VND.

The PM urged Vietnam Social Insurance Ministry of National Defense, Social Security of People's Public Security, Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (units assigned to implement insurance policies) to review, save, and cut unnecessary expenditures within the scope of management expenses.

The prime minister allowed the finance minister to alter the estimate between apparatus operations and propaganda, participant development, beneficiary administration, and money collection.

Professional training and retraining, administrative procedure reform, collection and payment, inspection and examination assigned in 2022, between units, between the two above-mentioned tasks in the same unit, and adjust the structure of expenditure tasks from management costs, based on Vietnam Social Security and relevant agencies to ensure compliance with the actual situation. 

The number of support expenditures for People's Committees of communes, wards, and townships from the projected source of health insurance management expenses to produce a list of participation in health insurance in the community. 11 Decree No. 146/2018/ND-CP of the Government defining and directing actions to execute several provisions of the Law on Health Insurance is 7,000 VND/person.

The deployment of public investment money must follow the public investment and building laws. Vietnam Social Security reports specific proposals to the Ministry of Planning and Investment for extending implementation time and disbursing public investment capital in 2021 that has not been fully disbursed; on that basis, the Ministry of Planning and Investment shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with relevant agencies in, clearly defining the competence to decide, review, and propose to the competent authorities according to the report. 

Spending on IT applications in social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance must conform with programs and plans authorized by competent authorities and with the legislation on IT applications in State agency operations.

Finance, Vietnam Social Insurance, Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, National Defense, and Public Security are accountable for the report's information and statistics.

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