National Assembly discusses draft Law on Social Insurance (amended)

Monday, May 27, 2024 | 15:45:23

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Continuing the 7th Session Program of the 15th National Assembly, on May 27, the National Assembly held a plenary session in the hall to discuss a number of contents with different opinions of the draft Law on Social Insurance (amended).

Comrade Ngo Dong Hai, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation and delegates attended the meeting.

Moderating the discussion, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh said that the Draft Law on Social Insurance (amended) had been discussed by the National Assembly at the 6th Session. Immediately after the session, the agency in charge of the review coordinated with the agency in charge of the drafting and relevant agencies to organize research and survey activities to collect opinions from directly affected subjects, experts, and scientists to absorb, explain, and revise the draft law submitted to the National Assembly. This is a draft law with many large, complex, highly specialized contents, highly socialized, and a very wide range of directly affected subjects. The Vice Chairman of the National Assembly requested that National Assembly deputies focus on giving opinions on the key issues mentioned in the report and issues of concern to National Assembly deputies.

The National Assembly deputies focused on discussing issues such as: conditions for receiving one-time social insurance for those who are not old enough to receive pension, do not continue to pay social insurance, have not paid social insurance for twenty years and have a request to receive one-time social insurance; on electronic transactions in the field of social insurance; on late payment of compulsory social insurance, evasion of compulsory social insurance and handling measures; on special mechanisms to protect employees in cases where employers are no longer able to pay social insurance for employees; on subjects of business owners participating in compulsory social insurance; on complaints, denunciations and handling of violations of social insurance; on average salary as the basis for paying social insurance to calculate pensions, one-time allowances and adjusting salary as the basis for paying compulsory social insurance; on social pension benefits.

Participating in the discussion, delegate Tran Khanh Thu, National Assembly Delegation of Thai Binh province, assessed that the content of the draft Law is consistent with the Party's guidelines, policies and guidelines, consistent with the Constitution, ensuring consistency in the legal system. However, he suggested that the Drafting Committee continue to review to ensure consistency and unity, based on scientific grounds, practicality, careful assessment, specific calculation, high predictability and codification of the provisions of policies and laws on social insurance. Regarding the conditions for receiving one-time social insurance, the delegate said that the two options proposed in the draft Law are not optimal options, because they have not thoroughly resolved the situation of receiving one-time social insurance and created high consensus. In which, option 1 has more advantages.

Delegate Tran Khanh Thu, National Assembly Delegation of Thai Binh province, spoke at the discussion.

To ensure the correct implementation of the principles of social insurance and ensure old-age security for workers, limit the occurrence of complications in the implementation, option 1 basically ensures the inheritance of current regulations, does not cause social disruption, and limits the situation where a social insurance participant has many times of receiving one-time social insurance in the past. In the long term, new participants will no longer receive one-time social insurance, so it contributes to increasing the number of people staying in the system to enjoy social insurance regimes from the accumulation process when participating in social insurance and reducing the burden on the whole society; gradually moving towards the universal principle of social insurance that when having a job and income, one must participate in social insurance to accumulate for the future when retiring in the context of increasing aging, our country has officially entered the stage of aging population.

The delegate also emphasized that in the coming time, there should be a communication orientation on participation in social insurance to aim for a sustainable social security regime for workers in case of illness, work-related accidents - occupational diseases, health insurance, pensions when they retire. The encouragement to participate and not receive one-time social insurance also depends on the socio-economic development situation, labor - employment. At the same time, it is necessary to study to have a credit support policy with preferential interest rates for workers who lose their jobs, are sick... to overcome the immediate difficulties.

Vu Son Tung

(Office of the National Assembly Delegation and Provincial People's Council)

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