Is it illegal to buy social security on your behalf?

Legal analysis: it is illegal to pay social security. Where the employing unit is the employee insured, the account opening and payment unit is the "employing unit"; Flexible employees who participate in the insurance in their personal capacity shall participate in the insurance in their personal name at the place where they are registered.

Legal basis: Article 58 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law. The employing unit shall handle social insurance registration for employees within 30 days from the date of employment. If the social insurance has not been registered, the social insurance agency shall verify the social insurance premium it should pay. Employees-free individual industrial and commercial households who voluntarily participate in social insurance, part-time employees who do not participate in social insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees shall apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration. The state establishes a national unified personal social security number. Personal social security number is a citizen's identity number.