Are provident fund and social security card the same card?

Provident Fund Co-branded Card: a bank card issued by the Housing Provident Fund Management Center in cooperation with commercial banks for the purpose of serving employees who have paid housing provident fund. It has multiple functions of housing provident fund deposit voucher, account inquiry and bank debit card, and is an effective voucher for employees to deposit housing provident fund. From March 25th, 20 13, employees who have paid the housing provident fund can directly apply for a joint housing provident fund card with debit card function in their own names without going through the company.

Social Security Card of the People's Republic of China: an integrated circuit (ic) card that is uniformly planned by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and issued by local human resources and social security departments and used in various business fields of human resources and social security.

Social security cards have a wide range of functions. Cardholders can not only use the card for real-time settlement of medical insurance personal accounts, but also handle endowment insurance affairs; Go through the formalities of job registration and unemployment registration; Apply for unemployment insurance; Apply for employment training; Apply for labor ability appraisal and enjoy work-related injury insurance benefits; Handling labor and social security affairs online.

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Issue joint housing provident fund cards to all employees who have established housing provident fund accounts. In order to ensure the correctness of distribution, taking Beijing as an example, all employees can handle it except the following employees:

1. Employees with multiple accounts need to merge their accounts.

2. If the employee ID number is duplicate, it shall be corrected.

3. If the employee's household registration is in a centralized storage period and needs to be transferred to a new unit, the new unit will handle it for the employee.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Provident Fund Joint Card Baidu Encyclopedia-Social Security Card of the People's Republic of China