Can the social security card be used as a bus card?

Social security cards can't be used as bus cards in general, but they can be used in some areas. If you want to use the social security card as a bus card, you need to open this function in advance and need the support of the local bus company. Social security cards have a wide range of functions. Cardholders can use this card for real-time settlement of personal accounts of medical insurance, handling endowment insurance affairs, applying for job registration and unemployment registration, and applying for unemployment insurance benefits.

Social security cards are issued by human resources and social security departments. It is an IC card with certain bank card function, which integrates social insurance (pension, medical care, maternity, work-related injury and unemployment) information inquiry, pension collection, hospitalization medical insurance, unemployment compensation application and work-related injury insurance payment. Bus card is an IC card used to pay for public transportation. As the card issuers belong to different departments, the mutual payment function of the two cards has not been realized, so the social security card cannot be used as a bus card.

Generally, CPU cards are used to take buses in cities. There are special bus cards, mobile phone NFC bus cards, and bus cards used with bank cards, which can be used as both bank cards and bus cards. At present, there is also a mobile bus card that is put together with the mobile phone SIM card. You can swipe your mobile phone on the bus, and you don't have to bring a bunch of pocket money when you go out.

legal ground

Article 18 of the Measures of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Social Security Cards

Social security cards should be mainly used in human resources and social security business fields. Under the premise of keeping the main functions, standards and norms unchanged, key systems unchanged and management subjects unchanged, it can carry other public service functions with the consent of the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security and the approval of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.