What is the use of social security cards for urban and rural residents?

Social security card is an important certificate to participate in social security. The social security card has the following functions: 1, personal social security related information record, 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, query 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 for medical care, unemployment, pension, work injury, maternity and other social security affairs; 6. Query the total amount of endowment insurance and medical insurance; 7. Handle social security affairs such as receiving pensions, job hunting and unemployment registration, and even participate in vocational training; 8. It will have multiple functions of a card, such as paying water and electricity bills, swiping a card by bus and electronic wallet. To put it simply, the functions of the social security card can be summarized as: recording personal information, recording medical insurance payment, seeing a doctor to buy medicine, handling social security affairs, and inquiring the premium amount, and more functions may be added in the future. Usually, the usage of medical insurance card is as follows: 1. Used as a hospital card: citizens with social security cards can directly see a doctor in this hospital and settle the expenses, and doctors can check by swiping their cards.

Legal objectivity:

Measures of the People's Republic of China for the Administration of Social Security Cards Article 2 The social security cards mentioned in these Measures refer to integrated circuit cards issued to the public and mainly used for government social management and public services in the fields of human resources and social security. Social security card is a electronic certificate for cardholders to enjoy the rights and interests of social security and public employment services. It has the basic functions of information recording, information inquiry and business handling. Sixteenth provincial, municipal human resources and social security departments that are allowed to issue social security cards shall formulate clear rules for the application and management of social security cards, and announce them to the public through express service places and publicity on government websites. The Regulations on the Application and Management of Social Security Cards shall include the following contents: (1) Functions and uses of social security cards; (two) the issuance, application conditions and application procedures of social security cards; (four) the procedures for reporting the loss and reissue the social security card after it is damaged or lost; (five) the rights and obligations of the card issuer, the cardholder and other relevant parties.