The Hoa Binh provincial Social Security held a conference on January 10 to review the performance in 2023 and launch tasks for this year. Nguyen Van Toan, member of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board and Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, attended and gave directions at the event.
The Director of the provincial Social Security
presents the insignia of "For the cause of Vietnam Social Security” to the
individuals with substantial contributions to social security development in
the country.
In 2023, the Hoa Binh Social Security promoted
submitting proposals to local Party committees and administrations, and
coordinated with relevant agencies to carry out social and health insurance
policies.
During the year, nearly 82,900 people
participated in compulsory social insurance (equivalent to 100.3% of the
target) and nearly 18,200 others in voluntary one (105.5%). Meanwhile, more
than 74,700 people joined the unemployment insurance (101.4% of the target) and
840,451 in health insurance (100.2%), raising the health insurance coverage to
95.23% of the province’s population, 0.03% higher than the target for 2023.
More than 2.4 trillion VND (98 billion USD) in
social, health, and unemployment insurance premiums was collected, representing
101.3% of the target. Besides, the agency gave social insurance benefits to an
additional 44,687 people. It paid over 2.6 trillion VND in social and
unemployment benefits and another 674.9 billion VND in health insurance
benefits.
It ensured safe, sustainable, and effective
control, management, and use of the social, unemployment, and health insurance
funds. Communications were also stepped up and reformed to promote people’s
access to information about social and health insurance policies and laws.
At the conference, the provincial Social Security
set eight focal tasks for 2024.
In his remarks, Vice Chairman of the provincial
People’s Committee Nguyen Van Toan asked the sector to push ahead with advising
all-level Party committees and administrations about insurance affairs,
actively implement and coordinate with relevant agencies to implement
communications to raise public awareness of social and health insurance
policies, comprehensively and flexibly take measures for collecting insurance
premiums and arrears, and strictly manage the provision of social insurance
benefits.
On behalf of the Vietnam Social Security, the
provincial Social Security presented the insignia of "For the cause of Vietnam
Social Security” to eight individuals of Hoa Binh and two others of the
provincial agency who have made substantial contributions to social security
development in Vietnam.
The Director of the provincial Social Security
also presented certificates of merit to 16 collectives and 13 individuals
outside the sector in recognition of their outstanding achievements in
coordinating with the agency to carry out social and health insurance policies
in 2023.
On November the first, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting for the reports on the progress of preparations to hold the Ceremony to receive the Certificate of the special national relic ranking for Trai Cave, the Stone Roof of Vanh village (Lac Son district) and the Opening Ceremony of the Culture - Tourism Week of Hoa Binh province in 2024. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Head of the Organizing Committee of Culture - Tourism Week chaired the meeting.
alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long on October 30 had a working session with the Party Committee of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment on the sector's implementation of political tasks in the past 10 months, and key tasks for the last months of 2024 and in the coming time.
In recent years, the People's Committee of Lac Thuy district has directed units and mass organisations to promote the popularisation of the Party's policies and resolutions and the State's laws, as well as issued guiding documents on local religious affairs.
The Hoa Binh Steering Committee for the organisation of the fourth provincial congress of ethnic minority groups held a meeting on October 29 to discuss the progress of preparations for the congress. Dinh Cong Su, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the Steering Committee chaired the event. The congress is slated for November 14-15 at the provincial Cultural Palace, expecting 250 official delegates.
Despite a low starting point, the mountainous district of Mai Chau has effectively implemented the National Target Programme on New Rural Development, resulting in significant improvements in people’s life and rural look.
Over the past years, Hoa Binh has systematically implemented the one-stop-shop and interconnected one-stop-shop mechanisms in processing administrative procedures, contributing to improving the efficiency of the work while promoting online public services.