Long – term social insurance fund

The paper analyzes the current situation of longterm social insurance in Vietnam and the main causes leading to the insolvency of this fund, thus propose some solutions to balance this fund in order to contribute to stabilize the employees’ life when they retire.

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A more specialised health care insurance market – private long-term care (LTC) insurance – is absent or very limited in countries with comprehensive public long-term care benefits, such as in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Japan and Luxembourg. In Germany, LTC cover is statutory for every resident.

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The verification of care needs is the responsibility of the long-term care insurance funds. The funds entrust the task of identifying, verifying and assessing the severity of care needs to the Medical Review Board of the Statutory Health Insurance Funds, which is primarily made up of doctors and nurses. The assessment takes place in the home of the insured person provided they give their consent. If such an assessment is not performed the insurance funds are entitled to refuse to pay benefits.

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All members of the social health insurance scheme are automatically covered by social long- term care insurance. The responsible long-term care insurance funds (Pflegekassen) are affiliated to the corresponding health insurance funds (Krankenkassen). Employees who are not covered by social LTC insurance are permitted to contract with a private long-term care insurance institution as long as they are members of a private health insurance scheme.

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And finally, while the World Bank gave them a B in targeting, in com- parison to other programs, the IDB probably would give them a B+, because they have really been very good at targeting the poor. Nicaragua’s social fund has projects in every town, in every backward part of Nicaragua, and this is fairly commonplace. Social funds are very good at targeting. There is, however, one issue with targeting.

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Although social funds projects started with the short-term emergency objective, they are increasingly incorporating longer term service deliv- ery and capacity-building goals. The Portfolio Review found that around 80 percent of recent social funds projects, that is, those approved in fis- cal years 1994–96, had long-term objectives. As the objectives of social funds projects evolve over time, their design and implementation need to change as well. The yardsticks used to monitor performance should reflect evolving objectives.

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Africa is still undergoing a process of economic stabilization, and many countries are facing specific issues of post-conflict reconstruction that call for emergency social funds interven- tions. The region already has the largest concentration of social funds, with the AGETIP agen- cies of West Africa regrouped within AFRICATIP. The social funds of Eastern and Southern Africa will develop their own network to be called Social Funds NET.

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