What does a social security card do? What is the difference between activated and not activated?

The main functions of a social security card are divided into two main categories, one of which is social security purposes. The main thing is that you can use it to receive your retirement paycheck, and you can use it to make medical insurance payments. It can also be used to make health insurance contributions, that is, the functions under the individual involving social security and health insurance.

The second function of the social security card is the financial function. That is, it can be used as a regular bank card. Some banks have one type of social security card, which is more convenient to use because there are no restrictions on accessing money, transferring money, checking

accounts and the like.

Social security cards are issued in bulk, so when the card arrives, it must be activated. Activation also means changing your password. Because the functions of the social security card are divided into two major parts, the social security function and the financial function, these two functions are also to set the password separately.

If you don't activate the password for the social security function of the social security card, the cardholder does not have to enter the password when buying medicine in the medical insurance, there will be no other impact, if you lose it, it is easy to pick up the person to go to the inside of the medical insurance part of the money spent;

If you don't activate the password for the financial function of the social security card, the financial function of the social security card can't be activated. That means you can't withdraw money. When to activate, when you can withdraw money.