Are Citizen Card and Medicare Card the same card?

The citizen card and the social security card are certainly not the same card.

1. Citizen card can generally be loaded with social security, public transportation, government subsidies, residents' health, bank debit, library debit, travel and other applications, with the development of the network era, the citizen card is also gradually expanding to open the micro-payment, utility bill payment and other applications, applicable to the field of commercial consumption, you can set a password, can be remembered, can be lost, but can not withdraw cash.

The emergence of the Citizen Card has, to a certain extent, solved the problem of carrying multiple cards and the trouble of single use of multiple cards, as bank cards, social security cards, utility cards, and public transportation cards can all be integrated into a single card, realizing cross-city one-card applications and settlements. The first citizen card appeared in Hangzhou in 2005, Hangzhou issued 400,000 citizen cards, including citizens' personal information records, identification, electronic credentials and other functions

2. Social security card is by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security unified planning, issued by the local labor security departments for the community, applied to labor and social security services in various business areas of the integrated circuit card (ic card).

What is issued to urban workers, the unemployed and the retired is known as the social security (personal) card, and what is issued to employers is known as the social security (employer) card.

Since the social security (personal) card is currently the focus of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security's card-related planning and specification, and the actual issuance of cards around the world is mostly focused on this type of card, the social security card we usually refer to is the social security (personal) card.

Social security card face and card are recorded in the card holder's name, gender, citizenship number and other basic information, the card identifies the cardholder's personal status (employment, unemployment, retirement, unemployment, etc.), you can record the cardholder's social insurance contributions, pension insurance individual account information, medical insurance individual account information, vocational qualifications and skills, employment experience, work-related injuries and occupational diseases and disability degree etc. The social security card is an electronic voucher for workers in the field of labor security.

The card holder can use the card to seek medical treatment and settle the medical insurance personal account; use the card to handle pension insurance affairs; use the card to go to the relevant departments to apply for job-seeking registration and unemployment registration procedures, apply for unemployment insurance benefits, and apply for employment training; use the card to apply for labor capacity appraisal and to apply for the enjoyment of work-related injuries insurance benefits.

Legal basis

1. Article 70 of the Labor Law of the People's Republic of China develops the cause of social insurance, establishes a social insurance system, and establishes a social insurance fund to enable workers to obtain help and compensation in old age, illness, work injury, unemployment, and childbirth.

2. The Law of the People's Republic of China on Social Insurance provides that employers and individuals shall pay social insurance premiums in accordance with the law. The State establishes a system of social insurance, including basic pension insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance, and maternity insurance, to safeguard the right of citizens to receive material assistance from the State and society in old age, sickness, industrial injury, unemployment, childbirth, and other situations in accordance with the law.