What are the procedures for self-employed people to buy social security for employees?

The process of purchasing social security by self-employed individuals is as follows: According to the relevant policies and regulations of social insurance, individual industrial and commercial households should participate in social insurance. Individual industrial and commercial households with employees should participate in five social insurances: endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance. Those without employees can participate in basic endowment insurance and basic medical insurance for employees as flexible employees. 1. Self-employed individuals go through the social security formalities for employees: the employer goes through the social insurance registration procedures, and the specific procedures are as follows: within 30 days from the date of obtaining the business license (or being approved to be established), they will go to the local tax collection hall to register the unit payment and the individual payment with the following documents and materials. (1) Documents approved by relevant departments (photocopies); (2) Business license (copy); (3) Organization Code Certificate issued by Technical Supervision Bureau (copy); (4) Identity card (photocopy), transfer order, preparation card, letter of introduction of cadres and workers (photocopy) or labor contract of the insured. 2. Self-employed individuals handle social security procedures for themselves: individual industrial and commercial households without employees can also participate in social insurance as flexible employees. The specific procedure is as follows: 1. Flexible employees are registered and collected by the social insurance service hall, and ICBC is entrusted by the local tax authorities to collect basic old-age insurance premiums, basic medical insurance premiums and medical assistance insurance premiums for serious illness; 2. After the flexible employees go through the insurance registration formalities in the social insurance comprehensive service hall, the insured person will pay the "Notice of Approval for Paying Social Insurance Fees" printed by the social insurance agency at ICBC outlets.

Legal objectivity:

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Article 57

The employing unit shall, within 30 days from the date of its establishment, apply to the local social insurance agency for social insurance registration with its business license, registration certificate or unit seal. The social insurance agency shall, within fifteen days from the date of receiving the application, examine and issue the social insurance registration certificate.

Where the social insurance registration items of the employing unit are changed or the employing unit is terminated according to law, it shall, within 30 days from the date of change or termination, go to the social insurance agency to handle the change or cancellation of social insurance registration.

The market supervision and management department, the civil affairs department and the organization management organ shall promptly inform the social insurance agency of the establishment and termination of the employing unit, and the public security organ shall promptly inform the social insurance agency of the birth, death, household registration, migration and cancellation of the individual.