How to check provident fund and social security account

The difference between provident fund and social security is as follows: 1. Provident fund refers to housing fund. Housing provident fund refers to the state organs, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises, institutions and their in-service employees to contribute to the long-term housing reserves. Social security refers to the non-profit social security system with the function of income redistribution in order to prevent and force the majority of members of the society to participate. 2. Social insurance is a social and economic system that provides income or compensation for the population that is incapacitated, temporarily out of work, or has suffered a loss due to health reasons. The social insurance scheme is organized by the government, which forces a certain group of people to form a social insurance fund by paying a part of their income as social insurance tax (fee), from which the insured can receive a fixed income or compensation for loss if certain conditions are met; it is a kind of redistributive system, and its goal is to ensure the reproduction of material and labour force as well as the stability of the society. The main items of social insurance include pension insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance, and maternity insurance.

Article 24 of the Regulations on the Management of Housing Provident Funds stipulates that an employee may withdraw the balance of his/her housing fund account if he/she is in one of the following situations: (1) purchasing, constructing, refurbishing, or overhauling his/her own housing; (2) retiring from work, or retiring from work; (3) losing the ability to work and terminating the labor relationship with his/her employer; (4) going out to the country for settlement; (5) repaying a loan for the purchase of a home; (6) losing the right to work; and (7) losing the right to work, or (8) losing the right to work, or (10) losing the right to work. (e) Repayment of the principal and interest of the loan for the purchase of a house; (f) Rent exceeding the prescribed proportion of the family's wage income.　　 In accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph (2), (3), (4), the withdrawal of the employee's housing fund, shall be canceled at the same time the employee's housing fund account.　　 If the employee dies or is declared dead, the employee's heirs and legatees may withdraw the balance of the employee's housing fund account; if there are no heirs or legatees, the balance of the employee's housing fund account shall be included in the value-added income of the housing fund.