{"id":390378,"date":"2026-04-13T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/390378\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:30:21","slug":"foreign-workers-in-vietnam-required-to-join-national-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/390378\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign workers in Vietnam required to join national health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" data-author=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/base64-1692173226837967320969-17760685606801161424529.png\" id=\"img_217137978380406784\" w=\"1920\" h=\"1280\" alt=\"Foreign workers in Vietnam required to join national health insurance- \u1ea2nh 1.\" title=\"Foreign workers in Vietnam required to join national health insurance- \u1ea2nh 1.\" rel=\"lightbox\" photoid=\"217137978380406784\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn2.tuoitre.vn\/471584752817336320\/2026\/4\/13\/base64-1692173226837967320969-17760685606801161424529.png\" type=\"photo\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-placeholder=\"Enter photo caption\" class=\"NLPlaceholderShow\">A foreign teacher teaches English to Vietnamese students in Hanoi. Photo: Nam Tran \/ Tuoi Tre<\/p>\n<p>The regulation ensures foreign employees can access public healthcare services at significantly subsidized costs.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible workers include those employed under contracts of at least one year, holding work permits or professional practice certificates, and working at enterprises, organizations, or representative offices in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Under current rules, the total health insurance contribution is 4.5 percent of the monthly salary used as the basis for social insurance payments.<\/p>\n<p>Of this, employees contribute 1.5 percent while employers cover three percent.<\/p>\n<p>Participants are entitled to medical examination and treatment benefits according to the system\u2019s coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Costs for treatment at registered facilities are reimbursed by the health insurance fund at rates ranging from 80 to 100 percent, depending on the individual\u2019s category and registration location.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities warned that companies failing to comply with the regulation may face administrative penalties.<\/p>\n<p>They can also be required to pay backdated contributions along with late payment interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A foreign teacher teaches English to Vietnamese students in Hanoi. Photo: Nam Tran \/ Tuoi Tre The regulation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47698,163,3986,521,85,46,185932,1759],"class_list":["post-390378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-foreign-workers","tag-health","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-social-insurance","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}