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Nearly 300,000 COVID-19-hit workers receive financial aid from social security

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) chapters have over the last week paid nearly 845 billion VND (36.1 million USD) in financial aid for more than 298,000 workers hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly 300,000 COVID-19-hit workers receive financial aid from social security ảnh 1Illustration. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Social Security (VSS)chapters have over the last week paid nearly 845 billion VND (36.1 million USD) in financial aid formore than 298,000 workers hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The aid was sourced from the VSS’s unemployment insurancefund.

The beneficiaries accounted for roughly 72% of those eligibleto receive aid for COVID-19-hit labourers from the support package under Resolution03/2021 of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee and Resolution 116/NQ-CPof the Government.

In Ho Chi Minh City, close to 266 billion VND from the unemploymentinsurance fund has been paid to 95,300 workers as of August 18. Each received1.8 million to 3.3 million VND./.

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