Can you still get social security at 49?

You can still pay for retirement insurance at age 49.

As long as it is before the retirement age can be insured. The legal retirement age is now 60 for men and 55 for women. Social security can be calculated cumulatively, that is, intermittent payment is allowed. The minimum contribution period is 180 months, i.e. 15 years, and you can pay more to receive more benefits. When you reach retirement age, you can apply for pension benefits.

The specific number of years to pay, can be divided into circumstances, as follows:

1, age 45 years of age of men can buy social insurance, male workers can contribute 10 years to the age of 55 years of age after the legal age of retirement. But also have to make up 5 years of pension insurance, in order to get a pension;

2, female workers at the age of 50 years old to reach the statutory retirement age, you can contribute 5 years to the age of 50 years old to reach the statutory age of retirement. But also have to make up 10 years of pension insurance to get the pension.

Retirement age is as follows:

Retirement age, if there is no new policy, the latest provisions of the statutory retirement age in accordance with the following standards.

1, male sixty years old, female fifty years old, and ten years of continuous service;

2, male fifty-five years old, female forty-five years old, and ten years of continuous service, engaged in underground, high altitude, high temperature, especially heavy physical labor or other work harmful to health;

3, male fifty years old, female forty-five years old. Retirement shall be granted to those who have completed ten years of continuous service, certified by a hospital and confirmed by the Labor Appraisal Committee that they are totally incapacitated for work.

Legal basis: "Chinese people's *** and the State Social Insurance Law" Article 16

Participating in basic pension insurance, the individual, reaching the statutory retirement age, the accumulated contributions for fifteen years, the monthly basic pension.

Individuals who have participated in basic old-age insurance and have contributed for less than fifteen years by the time they reach the statutory retirement age may contribute until they reach the full fifteen years and receive a basic pension on a monthly basis; they may also be transferred to the new type of rural social old-age insurance or the urban residents' social old-age insurance, and shall enjoy the corresponding old-age insurance benefits in accordance with the provisions of the State Council.

Article 60

Employers shall declare and pay social insurance premiums on their own, in full and on time, and shall not defer or reduce them except for force majeure or other legal reasons. The social insurance premiums to be paid by employees shall be withheld and paid by the employing organization on their behalf, and the employing organization shall inform the individual of the details of the payment of social insurance premiums on a monthly basis.

Article 27

Individuals who have participated in the basic medical insurance for employees, and have made contributions for a total of up to the number of years stipulated by the state by the time they reach the legal retirement age, shall no longer pay the basic medical insurance premiums after retirement, and shall enjoy the basic medical insurance benefits in accordance with the provisions of the state; and those who have not yet reached the state's stipulated number of years may make contributions up to the state's stipulated number of years.