How do foreigners buy social security in Shenzhen?

The ways for foreigners to buy social security in Shenzhen are as follows:

1. Self-employed individuals who have a business license and have paid business tax in Shenzhen can apply for personal social security in Shenzhen, and non-deep households can pay social security in the form of self-employed;

2, Shenzhen self-employed, when established, self-employed can bring business licenses and other information to the local local tax center for enterprise social security account opening. After obtaining the social security registration certificate, you can apply for Shenzhen social security payment for yourself and employees.

Methods of handling social security for non-registered individuals:

1. To apply for social security in Shenzhen, non-deep households can only pay social security through their units. For example, some non-Shenzhen household registration personnel work in some enterprises in Shenzhen, so the personal social security of employees will be paid by Shenzhen enterprises for employees;

2. The social security expenses in Shenzhen are shared by enterprises and individuals. Enterprises help employees pay social security fees in Shenzhen every month according to regulations, and then enterprises deduct the corresponding social security fees in Shenzhen from employees' personal wages every month.

Conditions for filing social security in different places in Shenzhen:

1. The insured persons in this city often seek medical treatment and file business in the Mainland.

Meet one of the following conditions can apply:

(1) The insured registered in this Municipality has been working or living outside this Municipality (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) for a long time;

(2) The insured who has reached the statutory retirement age lives in the Mainland;

(3) The insured of the through train enterprise in this city is permanently resident in other cities in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan).

2. Direct settlement and filing business for dual-creative personnel seeking medical treatment across provinces. Refers to people who are not registered in Shenzhen, are normally insured in Shenzhen, and are sent to other cities in China for work reasons or return to their registered residence for some reason.

To sum up, you need to open a referral certificate in the local (city) hospital, then go to the local social security office for approval and filing, then go to a different hospital to pay the full fee and go back to the local social security office for reimbursement.

Legal basis:

Article 29 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law

The medical expenses of the insured shall be paid by the basic medical insurance fund, and shall be directly settled by social insurance agencies, medical institutions and pharmaceutical business units.

The administrative department of social insurance and the administrative department of health shall establish a settlement system for medical expenses in different places to facilitate the insured to enjoy the basic medical insurance benefits.

Article 30

The following medical expenses are not included in the payment scope of the basic medical insurance fund:

(a) shall be paid by the industrial injury insurance fund;

(2) It shall be borne by a third party;

(three) shall be borne by public health;

(4) Go abroad for medical treatment.

Medical expenses that should be borne by a third party according to law. If the third party is unable to pay or cannot determine the third party, the basic medical insurance fund will pay in advance. After the basic medical insurance fund pays in advance, it has the right to recover from the third party.