From 2020, does the social insurance book no longer exist?

The social insurance book has been familiar to employees for a long time, is a book that records the employees’ participation in social insurance and is also a “proof” for them to enjoy all the prescribed regimes. specified. However, it is possible that this book will no longer exist.

One of the important changes in social insurance policies from 2020 reflected in the current Social Insurance Law is: Replace Social Insurance Book with Social Insurance Card from next year (according to Clause 2 Article 96) ..

With the above-mentioned change, employees will be convenient in implementing benefits related to social insurance, less time-consuming and accompanying documents.

2020 is not far away, but there is currently no official document guiding the abandonment of social insurance books and replacement with social insurance cards. Therefore, there is no specific roadmap for this change.

However, information from the Vietnam Social Insurance representative said that this agency is reviewing and adding information about participants to issue insurance codes, and proceed to complete the issuance of electronic insurance cards by 2020. , completely replace paper social insurance books as today.

Also in January 2020, Vietnam Social Insurance will replace the paper health insurance card with the electronic health insurance card. In Official Letter 4173 / VPCP-KSTT, the Prime Minister requested Vietnam Social Insurance to issue health insurance cards with chips attached to Vietnam’s technological solutions, ensuring connectivity, connectivity and integration. secure and data sharing …

(Source: Vietnamese law)