Can I still buy social security when I am 50 years old?

Legal analysis: you can buy old-age insurance, but it is conditional to get it.

1. Has reached the statutory retirement age and gone through the retirement formalities;

2 units and individuals to participate in old-age insurance and fulfill the obligation of payment of old-age insurance;

3. The individual payment has reached at least 15 years (the payment period in the transition period includes the deemed payment period). Today, the legal retirement age of enterprise employees in China is: male employees are 60 years old; Female employees engaged in management and scientific research are 55 years old; Female employees engaged in production and auxiliary work are over 50 years old, and female freelancers and individual industrial and commercial households are over 55 years old; .

Legal basis: Several Provisions of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Implementing the Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 2 When an individual who participates in the basic old-age insurance for employees reaches the statutory retirement age, if the accumulated payment is less than fifteen years, the payment may be extended to fifteen years. After the implementation of the Social Insurance Law, if the payment is extended for five years but still less than fifteen years, it can be paid in one lump sum for fifteen years.

Article 3 Individuals who participate in the basic old-age insurance for employees who have paid less than 15 years after reaching the statutory retirement age (including extending the payment in accordance with Article 2) may apply for transfer to the new rural social endowment insurance or urban residents' social endowment insurance where their household registration is located, and enjoy the corresponding old-age insurance benefits.