Social insurance transactions in Cau Giay district, Hanoi. (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Hanoi’s authorities have ordered the city’s inspectors to inspect enterprises with long overdue social insurance premiums.
The inspections will be conducted nextmonth at 284 enterprises that are late in paying their social insurancepremiums by seven to 35 months.
The total debt owed by these companiesamounts to 100 billion VND (4.3 million USD).
Among those being inspected are bridgecooperative No.18 under Civil Engineering Construction Corporation 1 (owingover 10 billion VND or 435,000 USD); Quang Trung Construction Investment JointStock Company (owing over 1.9 billion VND or 82,600 USD); Thang LongConstruction Mechanical Corporation (owing nearly 1.5 billion VND or 65,200 USD);Infrastructure Construction Investment Joint Stock Company (owing more than 1.4billion VND or 60,900 USD); A Dong Construction Investment Corporation and HongNam Mechanical Joint Stock Company (owing 1 billion VND each or 43,500 USD).
Many enterprises on the inspection listwere previously inspected but continue to delay paying their debts.
Deputy Chief Inspector of the city NguyenAnh Tuan said the inspection will not interfere with the businesses’operations.
After receiving the inspection plan, if the company pays the debt and Hanoi’ssocial insurance agency approves the payment, the inspection will bediscontinued, he said.
According to Hanoi’s Social Insurance, morethan 2.8 trillion VND (122 million USD) in premiums for social insurance,unemployment insurance and health insurance are owed as of November this year,making up 8.47 percent of the collections plan.
Hanoi is one of the localities with thehighest social insurance, unemployment insurance and health insurance premiumdebts, directly affecting the legal benefits of nearly 760,000 labourers.
Prolonged debt repayment is blamed onloopholes in the civic procedure for cases involving social insurance premiumdebts. Suing enterprises that owe such debts is fraught with proceduralchallenges.
Between January 2016 and November 2017, thecity’s Social Insurance agency handed over documents for 492 units owing debtsto trade unions to pursue lawsuits to ensure workers’ benefits, but none ofthese cases have been handled by the court. - VNA
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