How do self-employed people apply for social security in Dongguan, and what documents do they need?

According to the relevant policies and regulations of social insurance, individual industrial and commercial households should participate in social insurance. Individual industrial and commercial households with employees should participate in five social insurances: endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance. Those without employees can participate in basic endowment insurance and basic medical insurance for employees as flexible employees. 1. Self-employed individuals go through the social security formalities for employees: the employer goes through the social insurance registration procedures, and the specific procedures are as follows: within 30 days from the date of obtaining the business license (or being approved to be established), they will go to the local tax collection hall to register the unit payment and the individual payment with the following documents and materials. (1) Documents approved by relevant departments (photocopies); (2) Business license (copy); (3) Organization Code Certificate issued by Technical Supervision Bureau (copy); (4) Identity card (photocopy), transfer order, preparation card, letter of introduction of cadres and workers (photocopy) or labor contract of the insured. 2. Self-employed individuals handle social security procedures for themselves: individual industrial and commercial households without employees can also participate in social insurance as flexible employees. The specific procedure is as follows: 1. Flexible employees are registered and collected by the social insurance service hall, and ICBC is entrusted by the local tax authorities to collect basic old-age insurance premiums, basic medical insurance premiums and medical assistance insurance premiums for serious illness; 2. After the flexible employees go through the insurance registration formalities in the social insurance comprehensive service hall, the insured will submit the Notice of Approval for Payment of Social Insurance Premium printed by the social insurance agency to ICBC (China).

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