Are Shenzhen Provident Fund Card and Social Security Card the same card?

Provident fund card and social security card are not the same card. Social security cards are mainly used to pay pensions, buy medicines and see a doctor and be used as bank cards. The provident fund card can be used to collect housing provident fund. The social security card is issued by the human resources and social security bureau of the insured place, and the housing provident fund card is issued by the local housing provident fund management center. Because social security cards and provident fund cards are issued by two different institutions, the issuing banks may also be different.

Function of social security card

1, social security card records personal social security related information, electronic certificate and information inquiry, etc.

2. Record the insured's name, ID number, date of birth, gender, nationality, household registration and other basic information.

3. You can check my pension, unemployment, medical care, work injury and maternity insurance payment.

4. You can take the card to the hospital and go to the pharmacy to buy medicine.

5, can handle medical care, unemployment, pension, work injury and maternity and other social security affairs.

6. You can query the total amount of endowment insurance and medical insurance.

7. You can handle social security affairs such as receiving pensions, job hunting, unemployment registration, and even participate in vocational training.

8. It has multiple functions of one card, such as paying water and electricity bills, swiping a bus card, and electronic wallet.

Housing provident fund co-branded card is a bank card with multiple functions such as housing provident fund deposit voucher, account inquiry and bank debit card.

The role of the provident fund:

1. Query and print housing provident fund account information function: Cardholders can query their housing provident fund account balance and account details such as remittance, withdrawal and interest calculation through housing provident fund, and print housing provident fund account information on the account book.

2. Transfer card for housing provident fund withdrawal: When withdrawing housing provident fund according to regulations, the cardholder can designate a joint card as the withdrawal account of housing provident fund and transfer the withdrawn housing provident fund to the savings account of its joint card.

3. Financial function of savings card: The joint card has all the financial functions of ordinary savings card besides the above-mentioned housing provident fund service functions.

4. Preferential fee: the joint card is free of annual fee and small account management fee.

5. Employees holding joint housing provident fund cards can apply for agreed withdrawal, which can be divided into monthly, quarterly and annual withdrawals, and employees can choose by themselves.

legal ground

Regulations on the administration of housing provident fund

Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to the deposit, withdrawal, use, management and supervision of housing provident fund in People's Republic of China (PRC).

The term "housing accumulation fund" as mentioned in these Regulations refers to the long-term housing savings paid by state organs, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units and social organizations (hereinafter referred to as units) and their employees.

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Article 2 The state establishes social insurance systems such as basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance, so as to guarantee citizens' right to receive material assistance from the state and society in accordance with the law in case of old age, illness, industrial injury, unemployment and maternity.