Can I get unemployment benefits after paying social security for 6 months?

You can't get unemployment benefits after paying social security for six months.

Details are as follows:

1, if the accumulated social security payment time exceeds 1 less than 2 years, you can receive unemployment insurance for 3 months;

2. If the accumulated social security payment time is more than 2 years but less than 3 years, you can receive unemployment insurance for 6 months;

3. If the accumulated social security payment time is more than 3 years but less than 4 years, you can receive unemployment insurance for 9 months.

How to receive unemployment benefits:

1. Within 15 days before the termination of the labor contract, the company will send personnel to the social security bureaus where unemployment insurance is paid to handle unemployment registration;

2. According to the regulations of the Social Security Bureau, individuals can only receive unemployment benefits if they have paid unemployment insurance benefits for more than 1 year and meet the conditions for receiving them;

3. In the process of filing, the employer needs to submit four kinds of materials to the Social Security Bureau and affix the official seal of the unit. These four materials are: the notice of dismissal issued by employees and related archival materials, unemployment certificate, unemployment registration form, and routine official documents from the company to the Social Security Bureau;

4. After the unemployment registration is approved, the Social Security Bureau informs the unemployed to go to training, receive unemployment benefits and apply for an employment permit;

5. After the unemployed and the employing unit terminate or terminate the employment relationship, they shall go to the relevant departments of the street (town) where the household registration is located for unemployment registration and apply for unemployment insurance benefits with the audit documents, vocational guidance and training cards, household registration books, ID cards and three one-inch bareheaded photos issued by the Social Security Bureau.

To sum up, if you only pay social security for six months, you are generally not eligible for unemployment insurance.

Legal basis:

Article 4 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law

Employers and individuals in People's Republic of China (PRC) pay social insurance premiums according to law, and have the right to inquire about payment records and personal rights records, and require social insurance agencies to provide social insurance consultation and other related services.

Individuals enjoy social insurance benefits according to law and have the right to supervise the payment of their own units.

Article 10

Employees shall participate in the basic old-age insurance, and the employer and employees shall jointly 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.

The measures for the endowment insurance of civil servants and staff managed by reference to the Civil Service Law shall be formulated by the State Council.