Health insurance has now covered 93.35% of the country's population, exceeding the goal set in the Government’s Resolution No.01/NQ-CP as well as the National Assembly’s Resolution No.68/2022/QH15 on socio-economic development plan for 2023, Manh said at the VSS's conference in Hanoi on January 17 to review the sector’s performance in 2023 and launch tasks for 2024.
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Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai and other delegates join the conference. |
Last year, total premium from social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance reached over 472.3 trillion VND (19.24 billion USD), a year on year rise of 8.55%, 1.41% higher than the target assigned by the Prime Minister, while total expenditure was 439 trillion VND.
Meanwhile, the rate of people joining social insurance reached 39.25% of the labor force, or 18.25 million people. The rate for unemployment insurance was 31.58%, or 14.69 million people, said the VSS leader.
In 2023, the VSS paid monthly pensions and social insurance benefits to 95,670 people, along with one-off payout of social insurance benefits to more than 1.3 million people, and sickness, maternity, convalescence, and health recovery benefits to more than 8.8 million people, he added.
Source: VNA