During the first seven months of 2026, the effective implementation of Ha Noi's special support policies for participants in social insurance and health insurance yielded substantial results.
By the end of July 2026, the city had financially supported 138,719 voluntary social insurance participants, with total funding of 35.8 billion VND. It also assisted 201,162 health insurance participants with a total of 106.1 billion VND, including 133,032 people aged from 60 to under 75, whose health insurance premiums were fully subsidised by the city budget.
This information was disclosed at the August review meeting held on August 6, 2026, by the Ha Noi Social Security to assess the implementation of tasks in July and the first seven months of the year, analyse existing difficulties and challenges, and formulate key solutions for the remaining months of 2026.
According to the report presented at the meeting, despite ongoing challenges, Ha Noi Social Security has closely followed the guidance of Viet Nam Social Security, the Ha Noi Party Committee, the People's Council, and the People's Committee. It has executed coordinated measures across all areas of its work, including policy building and implementation; expanding participants; managing contributions and reducing overdue payments; settling and paying social insurance and unemployment insurance benefits; controlling health insurance-funded medical examination and treatment costs; as well as administrative reform, digital transformation, and policy communication. These efforts have served to reinforce the central role of social insurance and health insurance within the capital's social security system.
By the end of July 2026, Ha Noi had more than 8.6 million health insurance participants, accounting for 96.33% of the city's population; more than 2.6 million compulsory social insurance participants; 149,636 voluntary social insurance participants; and 2,539,248 unemployment insurance participants.
The settlement and payment of social insurance and unemployment insurance benefits continued to be executed fully and promptly, ensuring the rights and interests of both contributors and beneficiaries.
During the first seven months of the year, Ha Noi Social Security administered benefit claims for 343,075 recipients of social insurance and unemployment insurance. It also paid pensions and social insurance allowances to 607,320 beneficiaries, with a total payment of 29.54 trillion VND. The proportion of payments made through personal bank accounts reached 99.61%, further demonstrating the effectiveness of digital transformation in benefit payments, improving service quality, and making access more convenient for citizens.
Meanwhile, administrative reform, information technology application, and digital transformation continued to be strengthened. The quality of administrative procedure processing has steadily improved, with a consistently high rate of on-time processing. The proportion of delayed applications was only 0.46%, the lowest ever recorded. Policy communication has also continued to advance through a wider variety of approaches, serving to bring social insurance and health insurance policies closer to both citizens and businesses.
Concluding the meeting, Nguyen Ngoc Huyen, Director of Ha Noi Social Security, urged professional departments and local social security offices to closely follow the guidance of the Viet Nam Social Security, the Ha Noi Party Committee, the People's Council, and the People's Committee. He directed that tasks be assigned clearly to each unit and civil servant in accordance with the principle of "clear responsibilities, clear tasks, clear deadlines, clear accountability, and clear outcomes"; regular reviews of implementation progress; proactive policy advice; and the timely resolution of emerging difficulties to ensure that no task is delayed or overlooked.
The entire system must continue to advance administrative reform and digital transformation, improve the quality of administrative procedure processing and online public services, and regard the satisfaction of citizens and businesses as the key measure of service quality. Policy communication should continue to be revamped, making better use of digital communication channels and online platforms so that residents can easily access information about the city's social insurance and health insurance support policies.
