Circular No. 14/2016/TT-BYT guidelines for some Articles on health of the Law on Social insurance

This Circular provides for:

1. List of diseases, the power to determine diseases eligible for lump-sum social insurance payout.

2. Documents and procedures for assessment of work capacity reduction as the basis for workers and their relatives to receive social insurance payout.

3. Issuance of discharge notes, birth certificate, copies of medical records, medical record summaries, confirmation of maternity leave, confirmation of poor postpartum health and confirmation of eligibility to receive social insurance benefits.

4. List of diseases that require long-term treatment in Appendix 1 enclosed herewith.

Regulated entities:

1. Workers participating in social insurance as specified in Clause 1 and Clause 4 Article 2 of the Law on Social insurance.

2. Workers specified in Clause 1 of this Article whose social insurance participation period is reserved or retired workers pending pension or monthly benefits; voluntary social insurance participants who have paid compulsory social insurance premiums for at least 20 years.

3. Relatives of dead workers who participated in social insurance applying for assessment of work capacity reduction to receive death benefits for workers (hereinafter referred to as worker’s relative).

This Circular comes into force on July 01, 2016.

This Circular No. 14/2016/TT-BYT translation is made by LawSoft and for reference purposes only. 

(Source: http://thuvienphapluat.vn/)