Doing procedures for enjoying unemployment insurance benefits - Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – More than 16.7 million people nationwide joinedsocial insurance and unemployment insurance as of the end of May, equivalentto 33.81 percent of the total workforce, an increase of over 507,000 peopleover the same period in 2021.
According to the Vietnam Social Security (VSS), over 1.46 million peopleare expected to participate in compulsory social insurance and nearly 980,000 in voluntarysocial insurance in the remaining months of the year.
The social insurancesector will coordinate with other sectors and localities to focus on developingthe number of participants, especially those joining voluntary insurance forms.
Attention will be paid to speeding up administrative reform, applying informationtechnology in management and administration activities in order to make it easierfor people and employees to access and benefit from insurance policies, the VSSsaid./.
