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January 2025

Vietnam. Benefits of paying pensions and benefits without using cash

Thuan Duc Commune (Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh) became the first locality in Dong Hoi City to achieve 100% of pensioners and social insurance benefits receiving through bank accounts (ATM cards). In the middle of December 2024 month, with the last cases receiving pensions and social insurance benefits in cash switching to receiving them via e-commerce, Thuan Duc commune officially closed the list of social security payments via ATM cards at a rate of 100%. As one of the people on...

Vietnam. Declining fertility rate predicted to lead to workforce shortage

A prolonged low birth rate is forecast to directly impact the size and structure of the population, leading to consequences such as labourer shortages, rapid population aging, and population decline. Vietnam's replacement fertility rate has dropped to its lowest level in the last 12 years and is projected to continue decreasing in the coming years, according to a report of the General Department of Population under the Ministry of Health (MoH). Currently, 21 cities and provinces in Vietnam have reported low...

February 2024

Vietnam’s workers cash out pensions early ahead of new law

Vietnam is amending its pension laws in an attempt to deter people from abandoning the fund before retirement. Yet in some quarters, the pending change is having the opposite effect. Many workers critical to the world's electronics and clothing supply chains were already taking early payouts to deal with hardships, such as those brought on by the pandemic. Now, more of them are getting jittery after hearing the upcoming law could cut payouts in half, and the communist country is...

January 2024

Solving Vietnam’s social protection sustainability problem

As an economy develops, economic policy and social policy tend to overlap. Reports of long queues of people in Ho Chi Minh City withdrawing their social insurance contributions after losing their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic is an example. Workers in the formal sector viewed their contributions to a retirement income insurance scheme — known generally as ‘social insurance’ — as their savings to be drawn upon in hard times. This helped boost demand and enhanced short-term macroeconomic management. Yet...

June 2023

Vietnam strives to maintain replacement fertility rate

More people in a country can lead to a larger workforce which will lead to more products being produced and economic growth subsequently. While other countries in the world with a population of 500,000 people or more have only maintained their fertility rate which means that each woman of reproductive age has an average of 2.1 children for 2-10 years, Vietnam is the only country that has so far maintained a golden population ratio and structure for 23 years, from...

June 2022

Vietnam: Most citizens grow old without retirement funding plans

Many Vietnamese citizens likely to grow old without any savings or retirement plan due to low income and lack of access to elderly care. Ms Luong Thi My Hanh, head of domestic asset management at investment fund Dragon Capital Vietnam, said most Vietnamese workers do not have a retirement plan and are focused merely on meeting daily needs, according to a report in VnExpress. Most of them save for short-term goals and usually spend all the money they have, she added. Over...

March 2021

Vietnam gets its first private defined contribution plan

Dragon Capital VietFund Management, a Ho Chi Minh-based money management firm, has launched Vietnam's first private sector retirement savings vehicle. The defined contribution plan, with government tax incentives for employees and employers alike, offers savers three fund options — a relatively high-risk 50-50 split between equities and bonds, a 65% bond-35% stock mix and a conservative 80% bond-20% stock mix. Savings can be withdrawn tax-free upon reaching retirement age, currently 62 for men and 60 for woman. Life insurers in Vietnam have...

May 2019

Asignará el Banco Mundial ayuda al Seguro Social de Vietnam para gestión del fondo de pensiones

Hanoi (VNA)- El Banco Mundial (BM) asignará recursos para ayudar al Seguro Social de Vietnam a cumplimentar la segunda etapa del programa de capacitación y mejoramiento de la gobernanza y gestión de fondos de pensiones (2019-2021), dijo un funcionario de esa organización. Tal información fue dada a conocer por Alwaleed Alabatani, experto financiero del BM, durante un encuentro efectuado la víspera con el subdirector general del Seguro Social de Vietnam (VSS), Nguyen Dinh Khuong, con el...

WB continues to support Vietnam Social Insurance

The Deputy Director General of the Social Insurance of Vietnam, Nguyen Dinh Khuong, has just worked with a delegation of the World Bank, led by the financial expert Alwaleed Alabatani. During the recent working session, he said that the first phase (2017-2018) of the technical assistance project on the management and investment of pension funds between the two parties has come to an end. The World Bank would continue to support Vietnam's Social Insurance in reform, improving the...

November 2017

ILO: Vietnam should extend social protection to informal economy

Participants at a conference on “Reforming Social Insurance Policies - International Experience and Recommendations for Vietnam”, organized in Hanoi on November 29 by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the ILO, agreed that social insurance reform should be built on the results already achieved. “Social insurance is a key pillar of the social security system,” Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue told the gathering. “It makes a great contribution to realizing social advancement and justice in that...