How old do you have to be to pay for social security

Social security need to pay a cumulative total of 15 years before you can enjoy social security benefits after your statutory retirement age, social security payment of 15 years can no longer pay. If you have a unit, even if you have paid 15 years, but the employee has not yet retired, the enterprise will have to continue to pay until retirement; personal payment of social security, you can stop paying, you can also continue to pay.

The Chinese People's **** and the State Social Insurance Law

Article 16

Participating in the basic old-age pension insurance individuals, reaching the legal retirement age when the cumulative contributions of 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 legal 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.