Foreign workers pay social insurance from January 01, 01

| Updated: 26/11/2022

From January 01, 01, foreign workers will have to participate in social insurance and health insurance regimes according to Decree 2022/143/ND-CP, Law on Health Insurance Amendment 2018 and Decision 2014/QD-CP. Social insurance. Foreign workers will not participate in unemployment insurance.

Detailed instructions and according to the percentage of social insurance participation of foreign workers, specifically as follows:

Foreign workers pay social insurance
FOREIGN WORKERS PAY SOCIAL INSURANCE FROM 01-01-2022

Rate of social insurance payment of foreign workers

Fund/Object

Rate of deduction for payment of social insurance and health insurance contributions in 2022

Social Insurance

Health insurance

total

Retirement – ​​Death

Maternity sickness

Occupational accidents and diseases

Employers

14%

3%

0.5%

3%

 20.5%

The employee is a foreigner

8%

-

-

1.5%

 9.5%

Total

30%

Social insurance contributions for foreign workers from January 01, 01 to June 2022, 30

However, based on Resolution 68/NQ-CP on a number of policies to support employers facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the social insurance contributions for foreigners working in Vietnam from January 01 January 01, 2022 to June 30, 06 as follows:

Fund/Object

Rate of deduction for payment of social insurance and health insurance contributions in 2022

Social Insurance

Health insurance

total

Retirement – ​​Death

Maternity sickness

Occupational accidents and diseases

Employers

14%

3%

 

3%

 20%

The employee is a foreigner

8%

-

-

1.5%

 9.5%

Total

29.5%

Can foreign workers temporarily suspend social insurance contributions due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic?

According to the provisions of Article 4 of Decision 23/2021/QD-TTg, foreign employees participating in social insurance in Vietnam are entitled to the policy of temporarily suspending social insurance contributions to the retirement and survivorship fund. This support policy does not discriminate between Vietnamese and foreign workers.

However, foreign employees working in Vietnam will only apply the above-mentioned social insurance benefits from January 01, 01 according to Decree 2022/143/ND-CP. Therefore, in 2018, there will be no cases where foreign workers are allowed to temporarily stop paying social insurance contributions to the retirement and survivorship fund.

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