On November 9, 2021, Permanent Secretary of Labour Mr. Boonchob Suttamanaswong chaired the 13th Social Security Committee Meeting No. 23/2021 at the Amphol Singhakovin Meeting Room, 6th Floor, Administration Building, Social Security Office. The meeting took place via conference. The Social Security Office’s Secretary-General, Mr. Boonsong Thapchaiyut, also attended the meeting. The important meeting resolutions were as follows:
1. Approval of the 3-year government action plan by the Social Security Office (2020-2022) and the revised version for 2022 by adding an ad hoc plan to develop the Social Security Office from the COVID-19 situation.
2. Approval to adjust the plan to develop an information database system to assess the results and effects of the three-year working capital (2020-2022) of the Social Security Fund. The adjustment is from the original project to develop an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as a system for applying for dental benefits.
3. Approval to add the powers and duties of the Provincial Social Security Subcommittee.
4. Approval to cancel the order on appointing a subcommittee to study the guidelines for the development of benefits and expand the scope of insured persons under Section 40 (ad hoc) by appointing a “Social Security System Development Subcommittee, Section 40”.
5. Approval to continue the Factory Sandbox project to control and prevent the spread of COVID-19 in enterprises located in the manufacturing sector, which is the nation’s economic source. The scope is to expand from 11 provinces to one additional province, namely Songkhla Province, for a total of 12 provinces. In this regard, the Social Security Office has been assigned to consider allocating the number of insured persons and the limit framework that has already been approved from the Factory Sandbox Phase 1 or Phase 2 projects in provinces that are not fully implemented.
6. Approval in principle for the Social Security Office to transfer short-term funds (4 cases) that have been undertaken to transfer money to the long-term fund (2 cases) for long-term investment back into short-term fund account (4 cases).
7. Acknowledgment of the report on the implementation of the government action plan of the Social Security Office for the year 2021 for nine months (January to September 2021).
8. Acknowledgment of the progress report on medical services to the insured persons in cardiovascular disease treatment services at Chulabhorn Hospital Heart Healing Project 7/24 in honor of His Majesty the King.
9. Acknowledgment of the Social Security Fund status assessment report Q3/21 (as of September 2021).
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Division of Public Relations
9 November 2021
