Recently, Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance has issued a document contributing opinions on amending and supplementing the 2024 Social Insurance Law.
Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance proposed to add technology drivers and online sellers to the compulsory social insurance participation category.
According to Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance, these are groups of workers who have jobs, have stable and regular incomes, and are developing rapidly in the digital economy but are not yet fully covered by compulsory social insurance policies. The addition of this group of subjects aims to better ensure social security rights for workers in new job models.
Along with that, Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance also proposed amending Point a, Clause 1, Article 2 of the 2024 Social Insurance Law in the direction of bringing people working under labor contracts, including labor contracts of less than 1 month, to be subject to compulsory social insurance participation.
Reality shows that some businesses in the fields of construction, transportation, security, services... take advantage of regulations on short-term contracts to sign contracts under 1 month to evade social insurance contributions for employees.
Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance also said that according to survey data from personal income tax finalization sources in 2024 and 2025 of units in Ho Chi Minh City, there are about more than 350,000 workers belonging to this group.
The addition of groups of workers working under labor contracts of less than 1 month to the compulsory social insurance participation category aims to limit the situation of circumventing the law, while ensuring fairness in social security rights between groups of workers," Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance emphasized.
In addition to the contents related to the Law on Social Insurance, Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance also proposed that Vietnam Social Insurance propose amendments and supplements to Resolution No. 261/2025/QH15 and the Law on Health Insurance in the direction that people aged 75 and over with health insurance cards are subject to applying a 100% benefit level for medical examination and treatment costs within the scope of benefits enjoyed by health insurance participants.
According to Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance, Resolution No. 261/2025/QH15 stipulates that health insurance participants from near-poor households and elderly people aged 75 and over who are receiving social pension allowances are subject to a 100% benefit level for medical examination and treatment costs within their scope. However, in reality, cases have arisen where people aged 75 and over who are receiving pensions have health insurance cards but have not been applied a 100% benefit level, leading to many complaints from people.
Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance believes that adding people aged 75 and over with health insurance cards to the group entitled to 100% of health insurance medical examination and treatment costs within the scope of enjoyment will contribute to ensuring health care rights for the elderly, in line with the requirements of adapting to population aging and ensuring fairness in policy enjoyment.
