Can I use my Social Security card only for myself? Can a family member or wife use it?

The social security card can only be used by the person himself/herself, not by his/her family or wife.

The social security card adopts the national standard, and the social security number adopts the citizen's identity number in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Social Insurance Law.

The social security card of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is an integrated circuit (IC) card used in various business areas of human resources and social security, which is uniformly planned by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and issued by human resources and social security departments of various places for the society.

Those issued to urban workers, the unemployed and the retired are called social security (personal) cards, while those issued to employers are called social security (employer) cards. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said it will take about five years to make social security cards generally have financial functions.

The social security card has a wide range of functions. Cardholders can not only use the card for medical insurance personal account real-time settlement, but also for pension insurance affairs; for job search registration and unemployment registration procedures, unemployment insurance claims, apply for employment training; apply for labor capacity assessment and claim enjoyment of industrial injury insurance treatment; online labor and social security affairs, and so on.