How long is the statute of limitations for social security

The statute of limitations for social insurance is generally within 2 years.

The functions of social insurance are as follows:

1. Social insurance can play the role of social stabilizer. Social members of the old, weak, sick, disabled, pregnant and loss of labor capacity, in any era and any social system can not be avoided under the objective phenomenon. Social insurance is to give appropriate compensation to members of the community when they encounter such a situation in order to protect their basic standard of living, so as to prevent the emergence of unstable factors;

2. Social insurance is conducive to ensuring the smooth reproduction of the social labor force. Workers are bound to encounter various accidents in the course of their labor, causing the labor reproduction process to come to a halt. And social insurance is to give the necessary economic compensation and livelihood protection to the workers when they encounter the above risky accidents, so that the labor force can be restored;

3. Social insurance is conducive to the realization of social justice. Due to the differences in people's cultural level and labor ability, it will cause the gap in income. Social insurance can gather into an insurance fund through compulsory collection of insurance premiums, provide subsidies to workers with lower income or lost source of income, improve their living standard, and realize fair distribution of society to a certain extent;

4. Social insurance is conducive to the promotion of social progress. Insurance has the characteristics of mutual assistance, social insurance better reflects the spirit of mutual cooperation, the same boat ****.

In summary, the social security statute of limitations can also be extended or shortened according to special reasons, such as if the party suffers from a major disease or suffer unjust treatment and other reasons that lead to litigation can not be carried out. Ultimately, the social security litigation also need to refer to the relevant provisions of the law.

Legal basis:

Article 20 of the Regulations on Supervision of Labor Security

If a violation of labor security laws, regulations or rules is not discovered by the administrative department of labor security within two years, or reported or complained about, the administrative department of labor security will no longer investigate and deal with it. The period stipulated in the preceding paragraph, from the date of violation of labor security laws, regulations or rules; violation of labor security laws, regulations or rules of continuous or continuing state, from the end of the date of calculation.