How to activate Zhejiang Shaoxing social security card

To activate the social security card, you can try the following three ways:

1, bank activation

Bring your valid ID card and social security card to the bank where the social security card is opened (marked on the card) and ask the counter staff who will help you activate it. Activating the social security card requires face authentication and must be done in person.

2. Social security institutions are activated.

If it is a new social security card, the field staff can help them activate the social security card when the social security bureau receives it.

3. Phone activation

If it is inconvenient to go out, you can also try to call the social security service hotline to activate it. You can follow the voice prompts or press "0" directly to switch to manual service.

The purpose of social security card is:

1. It is used for identification and records the basic information of the insured, such as name, ID number, date of birth, gender, nationality, residence, etc.

2. Used for personal social security related information records, electronic certificates and information inquiry;

3. Used to inquire about the payment of my pension, unemployment, medical care, work injury and maternity insurance;

4 for medical care, unemployment, pension, work injury, maternity and other social security affairs.

To sum up, there are three ways to activate social security cards: opening bank activation, social security agency activation and telephone activation.

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.