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Jobless workers register for unemployment insurance in Ha Noi. Many workers who have unemployment insurance have failed to receive assistance after being laid off. — VNA/VNS Photo Huu Viet |
Only 50,057 out of nearly 87,000 filing for unemployment benefits in the first half of the year got them, it said.
While all received allowances, only 108 got vocational training and nearly 35,000 were introduced to new jobs.
Under the insurance scheme, a laid-off worker gets a dole of 60 per cent of the last six months' average salary starting a year after the worker joins the scheme.
The ministry's Employment Department said more than 2,500 laid-off workers had their benefits temporarily cut because they failed to report their unemployment status once a month.
HCM City had the highest number of people filing for benefits in the first six months – 27,700.
By the end of July it had risen to 33,000 though only 24,000 are eligible for benefits, according to a report by the city Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Some 4,000 laid-off workers were introduced to new jobs while only 32 opted for vocational training courses, it said.
Provincial and city labour departments' job service centres could not get funds released for providing vocational training and introducing jobs because it was not clearly stipulated in the unemployment insurance policy, the ministry's Employment Department said.
So the ministry was drafting a supplementary circular for the purpose, it added.
Almost 6.4 million workers pay unemployment insurance in nearly 50 provinces and cities that have joined the scheme. — VNS
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