(VOVworld) - Social and health insurance is expected to cover 72.4 million people in 2016. The Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI) revealed in Hanoi on January 18, to put forth tasks for the sector this year.
Overview of the Vietnam Social Insurance's conference
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Over 12.4 million people are projected to join compulsory social insurance, 10.5 million to participate in unemployment insurance and 72 million to use health insurance, while the number of voluntary insurance participants will exceed 300,000.
The VSI has also set the target of collecting 235 trillion VND (10.6 billion USD) from social, health and unemployment insurance, and to spend nearly 237 trillion VND (10.7 billion USD) on the work. According to VSI Deputy General Director Nguyen Minh Thao, 70.2 million people partook in social, health and unemployment insurance in 2015, a year-on-year increase of 8.3 percent.
The number of health insurance users rose sharply last year, especially in localities which used to experience low coverage, he said, citing the national average at 77 percent, 1.6 percent higher than the rate set by the Prime Minister.