Hanoi (VNA) –Vietnam Social Security Fund (VSSF) will not go bust by 2025,Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Social Security Dao Viet Anh has said.
Anhmade the affirmation at the Government’s regular press conference in Hanoi on May3, in response to a query raised by a Vietnam News Agency’s reporter on whetherthe proposal on raising retirement age is related to the forecast that the VSSFwill run out of money by 2025.
Hesaid the forecast was made by the International Labour Organisation before theissuance of the Law on Social Insurance in 2014.
However,under the new law, the coverage of social insurance has expanded and themethods to calculate premium and payments have changed, which made the previousforecast no longer correct, he further explained.
Hestressed that the proposal on higher retirement age must take into account variousissues like age, the efficiency of human resources use, labour productivity andgender equality, apart from social insurance fund balance.
OnApril 23 this year, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA)came up with two scenarios for increasing retirement age to 60 for women and 62for men; or 60 for women and 65 for men, at a meeting of the National Assembly’sCommittee on Social Affairs.
Accordingto MoLISA Minister Dao Ngoc Dung, either of these options, if approved, will beimplemented with a planned timeline so that it will not be an immediate changefor labourers.-VNA