Can individuals pay social security?

1. Yes, provided that the conditions are met: if the parties are individual industrial and commercial households without employees or flexible employees, they can participate in the basic old-age insurance and medical insurance of social security in their own name, but the other three insurances cannot be insured;

2. When insured, bring my ID card, household registration book, business license of individual industrial and commercial households, residence permit and other documents to the social security department where the household registration is located (where the business premises are located), apply for insurance in writing, and go through the relevant formalities according to the tips of the staff.

The Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that:

Tenth employees should participate in the basic old-age insurance, and employers and employees should pay the basic old-age insurance premium.

Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employer and other flexible employees can participate in the basic old-age insurance, and individuals pay the basic old-age insurance premium.

Social insurance is a social and economic system that provides income or compensation for those who lose their ability to work, are temporarily unemployed or suffer losses due to health reasons. The main items of social insurance include endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance.