(THTG) Voluntary social insurance has been organized and implemented since 2008 for informal sector workers and self-made income earners with flexible payment rates and payment methods suitable to their income. people register to participate and are partially supported by the state budget, so up to this point, the entire Tien Giang province has 25,000 people participating in voluntary social insurance, accounting for 2.6% of the workforce in this age group. year old.
Tien Giang has 2.6% of the working-age force participating in voluntary social insurance. Photo: Le Thi
Participating in voluntary social insurance, when meeting the payment conditions, people will receive a pension, helping them have a stable financial source, live happily and healthily without having to depend on their children and grandchildren, and at the same time receive The social insurance agency issues a free health insurance card with a benefit of 95% throughout the pension process, or the participant’s relatives are entitled to a death benefit or burial fee when they unfortunately pass away. Because of those benefits, from 2020 until now, people in Tien Giang province have begun to pay attention to this policy and the number of participants has increased rapidly. In the coming time, the Provincial Social Insurance will continue to implement specific solutions to attract the informal sector workforce, especially freelance workers, to participate in voluntary social insurance. The goal of universal social insurance coverage./
Kim Nu
