Unemployment insurance fund to soon complete payments for COVID-19-hit employees
More than 339,000 employees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have received a total of VND963 billion (US$41.12 million) from the unemployment insurance fund as of 5:30 pm on August 25.
A supporting package for the group has been launched by the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) under the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee’s Resolution No. 24/2022/UBTVQH15. To date, 90% of the employees registering for the assistance have received payments from the package.
Meanwhile, the VSS chapters in 19 provinces and cities nationwide have completed related payments in their localities.
As of December 31 last year, there were more than 414,000 registered employees having yet to obtain their sums, which amounted to over VND1.15 trillion.
The NA Standing Committee has requested the disbursement of the financial support be completed by September 10 at the latest.