Vietnam Social Security (VSS) is a governmental agency that has the functions of implementing social and health insurance (SI, HI) policies; implementing the collection and payment of unemployment insurance (UI); managing the social security funds, namely, SI, UI, HI funds; inspecting the contribution and payment of SI, UI and HI in compliance with the law.

Seven benefits of SI, HI include: (1) sickness; (2) maternity; (3) work injury and occupational disease; (4) retirement; (5) survivor; (6) medical (health insurance); and (7) unemployment; in which:

VssID – Digital Social Insurance is a digital ecosystem transformation to serve its members. This is a convenient service on smartphone, with many features, that meet the demands of the participants and beneficiaries of social insurance (SI), health insurance (HI) and unemployment insurance (UI) policies by the flexibility of providing essential information.

With the VssID app, users can:

Viet Nam has about 80.9 million citizens participating in healthcare insurance (HI), covering over 86 per cent of the population. The Viet Nam Social Security (VSS) now faces big challenges in the inspection of HI payments: how to manage the increasing and huge amounts of HI participant data (hundreds of millions of HI payment requests need to be inspected annually) as well as how to provide timely implementation of all HI policies and ensure the quality of social security service.