TY - BOOK ID - 135556234 TI - Voluntary Pension System : Challenge of Expanding Coverage. AU - Phuong, Nguyen Thi Thu. AU - Castel, Paulette. PY - 2009 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Annuities KW - Apartheid KW - Contribution Rates KW - Debt Markets KW - Developing Countries KW - Economic Development KW - Expenditures KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Health Insurance KW - Household Income KW - Informal Sector KW - Labor Market KW - Labor Markets KW - Labor Policies KW - Law Enforcement KW - Legal Framework KW - Life Insurance KW - Minimum Wage KW - Pension Reform KW - Pensions & Retirement Systems KW - Poverty Assessment KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Private Sector KW - Retirement KW - Savings KW - Social Insurance KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Temporary Workers KW - Unemployment KW - Wages KW - Workers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135556234 AB - Since 1947, the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has provided social insurance to public servants and armed forces personnel in Vietnam. In 1995, the Government merged the social insurance unit of the Ministry of labour, invalids and social affairs with that of the Vietnam General Confederation of labor. At the same time the system became mandatory to the employees of the newly developing private sector. The consolidated system is publicly managed by the VSS administration. VSS collects contributions and pay social insurance benefits (in case of sickness and sick leaves, maternity and family planning related leaves, work injury and professional disease, survivorship and to people that reached pension ages). This paper investigates this issue by reviewing the characteristics of employment in Vietnam. It concludes that the risk that social coverage remains limited for many years is high and, presents accordingly some policy options to augment VSS's chances to reach universal coverage in the future. ER -