According to Vietnam Social Security, the Ministry of Finance has just issued Decision No. 2270/QD-BTC, announcing 25 administrative procedures in the field of social insurance (BHXH), including 5 new procedures, 15 amended and supplemented procedures and 5 abolished procedures.
Promulgating 5 new procedures, amending 15 procedures
According to Decision No. 2270/QD-BTC, 5 new administrative procedures include: Resolving regimes for employees who do not meet the conditions to receive pensions and are not old enough to receive social pension benefits; paying support for employees participating in vocational skills training and improvement; paying funds to support employers to train, foster, and improve vocational skills to maintain employment; paying unemployment benefits; assessing medical examination and treatment costs of health insurance.
In which, procedures for resolving regimes for employees who do not meet the conditions to receive pensions and are not old enough to receive social pension benefits are issued according to new regulations of the Law on Social Insurance; procedures for appraising health insurance medical examination and treatment costs are implemented according to the Law on Health Insurance. The remaining three procedures are implemented according to the Law on Employment.
The decision also amends and supplements 15 administrative procedures, covering many social insurance and health insurance regimes directly related to people's rights.
In the field of social insurance, updated procedures relate to resolving sickness, maternity, recovery, health recovery regimes; first-time work accidents, occupational diseases, recurrence or continued work accidents, occupational diseases; settlement of pensions, monthly allowances for commune officials; one-time social insurance and one-time allowances for people receiving pensions, monthly social insurance allowances to settle abroad.
Procedures for resolving death benefits and retroactively receiving pensions and social insurance and unemployment insurance allowances of beneficiaries who have died but have not yet received benefits; adjusting, suspending, terminating or continuing to receive social insurance; changing the form and place of receiving monthly pensions and social insurance allowances, along with a number of specific allowance policies, are also amended and supplemented.
In the field of health insurance, 3 procedures are updated including: Signing health insurance medical examination and treatment contracts; payment of medical examination and treatment costs between social insurance agencies and medical examination and treatment facilities; direct payment of medical examination and treatment costs between social insurance agencies and health insurance participants.
Notably, Form 14-HSB attached to the Decision supplementing guidance on maternity benefits when giving birth to a second child according to Clause 1, Article 2 of Decree No. 168/ND-CP dated May 15, 2026 of the Government.
This content applies to employees who are retained, have quit their jobs, been demobilized, discharged from the army before the time of giving birth; including cases of giving birth from July 1, 2026 onwards during the time of paying social insurance but then quit their jobs at the unit and wish to submit dossiers to enjoy benefits at the social insurance agency; and also applies to employees who no longer have employers.
Abolishing 5 procedures, using data instead of paperwork
Decision No. 2270/QD-BTC abolishes 5 procedures on: Beneficiaries switching between receiving social insurance benefits in cash and personal accounts or changing personal information; authorizing the receipt of social insurance benefits and unemployment benefits; retroactively receiving pensions and social insurance benefits of beneficiaries who have died but still have benefits not received; resolving the continued receipt of pensions and monthly social insurance benefits in some cases; resolving allowances for recovery and health recovery after illness, maternity, occupational accidents, and occupational diseases.
The abolition of the above procedures does not mean that people lose the right to implement related contents. For example, individuals and organizations can still authorize the implementation of administrative procedures when requested and have written authorization according to the provisions of law.
Another notable point is the replacement of dossier components with data managed, provided and integrated by Vietnam Social Security at the National Data Center or data shared by ministries, branches, and provincial and city People's Committees. Data exploited from the social insurance data warehouse includes information fields belonging to social insurance books and health insurance cards.
Many documents have also been interconnected and shared data such as discharge papers, summary medical records, certificates of leave to enjoy social insurance benefits, death notices for cases of inpatients who die at medical examination and treatment facilities, certificates of maternity leave, records showing information about child death or fetal death, minutes of assessment of working capacity reduction and some documents related to the treatment process of work accidents and occupational diseases.
The use of data helps reduce the requirement for people to provide information and documents already available in connected and shared databases; and at the same time promote the receipt of dossiers and return of results according to the one-stop shop, inter-agency one-stop shop mechanism and digital transformation in the implementation of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance policies.
Decision No. 2270/QD-BTC takes effect from the date of signing. The Director of Vietnam Social Security is assigned to preside over and be responsible for implementing it.
