Is there only one social security number for each person

Legal analysis: each participant can only have one social security account number, corresponding to the participant's ID number, does not support the existence of two social security numbers for the same participant. The social security account is transferred and continued as the person leaves.

Legal basis: The Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China Article 58 An employer shall, within thirty days from the date of employment, apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration for its employees. If the employer fails to register for social insurance, the social insurance agency shall approve the social insurance premiums to be paid by the employer.

Individual industrial and commercial households without employees who voluntarily participate in social insurance, part-time workers who do not participate in social insurance with their employers, and other flexibly employed persons shall apply to the social insurance administrative organization for social insurance registration.

The State establishes a nationally unified individual social security number. The individual social security number is a citizen's identity number.

The Interim Measures for the Convergence of the Urban and Rural Pension Insurance Systems Article 8 Participants shall not receive urban workers' pension insurance and urban and rural residents' pension insurance benefits at the same time. For those who receive both urban workers' old-age insurance and urban and rural residents' old-age insurance benefits, the relationship between urban and rural residents' old-age insurance shall be terminated and dissolved.