(LĐXH)- Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has just signed Resolution 86 of the Government on the implementation of urgent measures to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic to implement Resolution 30 of the National Assembly.
The Resolution 86 stated that, regarding policies to support and ensure social security, the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, ministries, branches and localities, based on their functions, tasks and competence, focus on directing: Implement effectively results of the Government\'s Resolution No. 68/NQ-CP and the Prime Minister\'s Decision No. 23/2021/QD-TTg on policies to support employees and employers facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Besides, regularly review, update the supported objects; do not omit the beneficiaries, do not let anyone go hungry, closely monitor the situation and actual requirements to continue to expand or adjust appropriately the beneficiaries when they face difficulties and minimize administrative procedures when performing this task.
At the same time, taking care of people\'s lives, especially people with meritorious services, policy families, poor households, women, children, the elderly, the disabled, the weak, the disadvantaged, people who lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 epidemic and frontline forces against the epidemic, ensuring timely, substantive and effective.
To support businesses and individuals in Vietnam which have been impacted by COVID-19, especially in recent periods, the Vietnamese Government issued Resolution 68/NQ-CP on 1 July 2021. This Resolution implements policies to decrease and defer contribution payments into a number of Social Insurance funds, provides funding support for businesses, and facilitates allowances for employees, individuals and business households impacted by COVID-19.
It is said that Resolution 68 seemed very progressive, matching the actual demand. Accordingly, it has expanded the scope of policy beneficiaries, loosened lending requirements, and raised the lending limit as well as extended the duration the labourers incurring work suspension could receive payment./.
Hong Minh
