Staff provide services to patients at Phnom Penh’s Preah Ang Duong Hospital in 2024. FN
In 2024, members of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) utilised the fund’s healthcare services approximately 7.77 million times, amounting to an expenditure of about $162.55 million. Beginning February 1, the NSSF will begin inspecting suspicious cases.
According to the NSSF, its members used healthcare services at partner facilities an average of more than 647,000 times per month.
As of January 15, NSSF, under the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, had a total of 2,713,694 members, 1,503,345 of them women. Among them, 493,557 members are employed in the public sector, 1,505,535 are covered by private companies under labour law provisions, 511,337 are self-employed and 158,265 are dependents of NSSF members.
All companies are required to register their employees for NSSF health services and comply with the Social Security Law enacted in 2019. However, the NSSF suspects that some companies have not complied fully with the law. Some businesses may have failed to register their enterprises, establishments, and workers; not paid contributions on time; failed to report accurate employee numbers; or improperly declared wages, thus altering member’s contributions.
The NSSF will soon conduct inspections across the country to ensure compliance with the Social Security Law and strengthen its enforcement.
According to a January 14 NSSF announcement, the inspections aim to expand membership coverage, ensure worker’s well-being and social security benefits, and maintain the sustainability of the social security fund.
The NSSF reminded all enterprise and establishment owners or representatives to strictly comply with the Social Security Law and related regulations.
“If the NSSF finds that employers fail to fulfil obligations such as timely contribution payments, accurately reporting employee numbers or correctly declaring wages, legal action will be pursued,” it warned.
Heng Sophannarith, NSSF deputy director-general, told The Post that violations of the Social Security Law will be penalized under Article 98. Employers may face fines ranging from 10 to 30 times the daily reference wage for each employee involved.
“If contributions are being improperly deducted, penalties will be imposed under Article 99, with employers facing imprisonment from one month to one year and fines ranging from 120 to 360 times the daily reference wage for each affected employee,” he added.
