Do I need to activate my social security card?

Legal analysis: the new social security card needs to be activated to play its role.

Activate social security card process:

1. First, check whether the information in the social security card is correct.

2. Check the upper left corner of the social security card information page to confirm which bank is the issuing bank.

3. After determining the issuing bank, I hold my social security card and valid identity documents to go through the activation procedures of the social security card at the business outlets of the issuing bank marked on the card surface.

4. Social security card activation is divided into social security function activation and financial function activation (i.e. social security function activation and bank card function activation). The two accounts are independent, and the funds cannot be transferred to each other, so they must be opened separately.

5. The social security account of the financial social security card must be modified before it can be activated. You can ask the bank staff for the initial password. Pay attention to protect your information security when modifying secrets. After the account is activated, you can use the social security card to pay the outpatient fee in the hospital and buy medicine in the pharmacy.

Legal basis: Article 58 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law. The employing unit shall handle social insurance registration for employees within 30 days from the date of employment. If the social insurance has not been registered, the social insurance agency shall verify the social insurance premium it should pay. Employees-free individual industrial and commercial households who voluntarily participate in social insurance, part-time employees who do not participate in social insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees shall apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration. The state establishes a national unified personal social security number. Personal social security number is a citizen's identity number.