Can anyone apply for a social security card?

Legal analysis: According to relevant laws and regulations, except those who work in units and enterprises, rural or urban residents should apply for social security cards as long as they have paid cooperative medical care, new rural insurance, urban medical insurance, urban pension insurance and flexible employment pension insurance.

Legal basis: Article 54 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Rural Revitalization Promotion Law, the state improves the social security system of urban and rural planning, establishes and improves the security mechanism, and supports rural areas to improve the level of social security management services; Establish and improve the mechanism for determining the basic old-age insurance benefits for urban and rural residents and the normal adjustment of basic pension standards to ensure that the basic old-age insurance benefits for urban and rural residents are gradually improved with economic and social development. The state supports farmers to participate in the basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents in accordance with regulations, and encourages qualified flexible employees and agricultural industrialization employees to participate in social insurance such as basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance for employees. The state promotes the coordinated development of the urban and rural minimum living security system, improves the level of social assistance such as poverty alleviation in rural areas, strengthens care services for rural left-behind children, women and the elderly, the disabled and children in distress, and supports the development of inclusive old-age care services and mutual assistance for the elderly in rural areas.