Instructions about parental insurance benefit for foreigner

The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs issues the Official Dispatch No. 2161//LĐTBXH-BHXH dated June 16th, 2020 regarding the implementation of regulations on foreign workers’ parental insurance benefits.

Case in which male workers or employees paying social insurance contributions take care of their child-bearing wives. 

According to Article 7 of Decree No. 143/2018/ND-CP dated October 15th, 2018, elaborating on the Law on Social Insurance and the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene regarding the compulsory social insurance for workers and employees who are foreign nationals working in Vietnam. if a male worker or employee who is a foreign citizen participating in the social insurance plan is taking care of his child-bearing wife that is not participating in the social insurance plan in Vietnam, he will be eligible to receive a one-time payment of insurance benefit.

He will be entitled to the lump-sum benefit two times greater than the base pay rate that he is paid per child in each child-bearing month as provided in Article 38 in the Law on Social Insurance.

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Number: 2161/LĐTBXH-BHXH