Can an individual buy social security

Individuals can buy social security. Individuals can participate in the social security of employees in the capacity of flexible employment, or participate in the social security of urban and rural residents. For those who participate in employee social security as a flexible employer, they can generally only pay for pension insurance and medical insurance, and they have to pay for them in the place where they have their household accounts, and they can participate in social security through talent service centers or employment agency service centers.

Legal basis

Article 12 of the Social Insurance Law stipulates that employers shall pay the basic pension insurance premiums in accordance with the state regulations on the proportion of the total wages of the employees of the organization, which shall be credited to the basic pension insurance fund. Employees shall pay basic pension insurance premiums in accordance with the proportion of their own wages stipulated by the State and credited to their individual accounts. Individual business households without employees, part-time workers who do not participate in the basic pension insurance of the employer and other flexible employment to participate in the basic pension insurance, should pay the basic pension insurance premiums in accordance with the state regulations, respectively, credited to the basic pension insurance fund and individual accounts.