Do newborns need a photo to get a social security card

Newborns do not need a photo to get a Medicare card.

Newborns do not need a photo to apply for a health insurance card, only need to provide personal identification information, including name, identity card number, gender, etc., to provide a photo of the health insurance card can wait until the child is 6 years old and then go to the health insurance department to replace. In addition, if individual places newborns to do medical insurance card requirements to provide photos, then, the photo requirements will not be very high, lying down, sitting can be, resolution 30dpi, format jpg, white background, size 1 inch.

Legal basis

The Chinese people's **** and the State social insurance law in its entirety, Article 5 The people's governments at or above the county level will be the cause of social insurance into the national economy and social development planning. The State raises funds for social insurance through multiple channels. The people's governments at or above the county level give necessary financial support to the social insurance cause. The State supports the social insurance cause through preferential tax policies.

Article 4 of the Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China Article 4: Employers and individuals within the territory of the People's Republic of China shall pay social insurance premiums in accordance with the law, and shall have the right to inquire into the records of contributions and individual rights and interests, and to request the social insurance agencies to provide social insurance counseling and other related services. Individuals enjoy social insurance benefits in accordance with the law, and have the right to supervise the payment of contributions for them by their own units.