How to pay social security if you don't go to work?

When you are not at work, you can pay social security by yourself as follows:

1. Pay through the company: After leaving the company, you can contact your former employer or other companies to discuss whether you can continue to pay social security through them;

2. Self-payment: as a freelancer or flexible employee, bring relevant documents to the local social security payment place, choose the appropriate payment grade, and complete the payment according to the instructions of the staff;

3. Payment items: individuals can pay up to three kinds of social insurance: pension, medical care and unemployment;

4. Right inquiry: individuals have the right to inquire about payment records and personal rights records and ask social insurance agencies to provide consulting services.

Social security payment method:

1. Individual voluntary payment: applicable to non-working personnel, you can go directly to the local social security agency to go through the voluntary payment procedures;

2. Bank transfer: individuals can pay social security fees through bank counters or online bank transfer;

3. Social security card payment: some areas support the use of social security cards to pay directly on designated self-service devices;

4. Third-party payment platform: The third-party payment platform is used to pay social security fees.

To sum up, individuals who don't go to work can negotiate with the original employer to pay social security, go to the social security payment place or operate online, covering pension, medical care and unemployment insurance, and have the right to inquire about the payment and rights records to ensure that they can still safeguard their social security rights and interests in flexible employment or freelancing.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Article 58

The employing unit shall, within 30 days from the date of employment, apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration for its employees. 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.