Current Status and Recommendations on Maternity Insurance in the Social Insurance System in Vietnam

Maternity benefits play an important role in protecting women against the risks of loss of income and health from pregnancy and childbirth. In Vietnam today, maternity benefits are considered quite generous in terms of leave time and benefit rate. However, statutory and actual maternity coverage is very limited. From the collected secondary data sources, the author used document research methods, statistical analysis methods, and comparison and contrast to analyze the collected data. Since then, the author has systematized the theoretical basis and current situation of maternity benefits in the social insurance system in Vietnam; Proposing a number of recommendations to improve the maternity insurance policy in the direction of expanding the scope of application of the maternity regime, improving the effectiveness of the maternity regime in society; Exercise the right to maternity protection of all women in Vietnam.