Does paying residents' medical insurance count as paying social security?

Paying residents' medical insurance is considered as paying social security.

Paying only medical insurance is not social security. According to the relevant laws of our country, social security generally refers to five insurances, including medical insurance, endowment insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance and industrial injury insurance. Therefore, medical insurance is only a kind of social security.

To apply for a social security card, you need the following information:

1. If an individual applies according to law, he/she shall provide the applicant's ID card, household registration book, social security application registration form and other materials;

2. If the company applies, it needs its business license, registration certificate, employee roster, social security registration application form and other materials.

The employing unit shall, within 30 days from the date of its establishment, apply to the local social insurance agency for social insurance registration with its business license, registration certificate or unit seal. The social insurance agency shall, within fifteen days from the date of receiving the application, examine and issue the social insurance registration certificate.

The ways to deal with social security are:

1, paid by the unit, and the social security fee shall be borne by the individual and the unit * * *;

2. Individuals can go to the Social Security Bureau to pay by themselves.

3, the employer shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium in accordance with the proportion of the total wages of employees in the unit stipulated by the state, credited to the basic old-age insurance fund.

4. Employees shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium in accordance with the proportion of wages stipulated by the state and record it in personal accounts.

5. Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees who have participated in the basic old-age insurance shall pay the basic old-age insurance premiums in accordance with state regulations and record them in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund and individual accounts respectively.

To sum up, paying only medical insurance is not social security. According to the relevant laws of our country, social security generally refers to five insurances, including medical insurance, endowment insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance and industrial injury insurance. Therefore, medical insurance is only a kind of social security.

Legal basis:

Article 26 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law

The basic medical insurance for employees, the new rural cooperative medical system and the basic medical insurance for urban residents shall be implemented in accordance with state regulations.