How to use the social security key

Legal analysis: 1. Participants need to take their social security card, the original proof of identity to the corresponding bank branch to activate the social security card, after activation of the health insurance account will be restored to normal. 2. In the designated hospitals of health insurance to use social security card to directly activate the social security function. The first time a participant uses his/her social security card in a designated medical institution, he/she only needs to register for outpatient or inpatient services, and then he/she can directly activate the social security function.3. The first time a participant uses his/her social security card in a designated pharmacy, he/she inserts the original card and then inserts the social security card according to the requirements to activate his/her social security card.

Legal basis: Interim Regulations on the Collection and Payment of Social Insurance Premiums

Article 2 The collection and payment of basic pension insurance premiums, basic medical insurance premiums and unemployment insurance premiums (hereinafter collectively referred to as social insurance premiums) shall be governed by these regulations.

The contributing units and individuals referred to in these Regulations are those units and individuals who shall pay social insurance premiums in accordance with the relevant laws, administrative regulations and the provisions of the State Council.

Article 3 The scope of the collection of basic old-age insurance premiums: state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and their employees, as well as institutions under enterprise management and their employees.

The scope of basic medical insurance premiums: state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and their employees, state organs and their staff, institutions and their employees, privately-run non-enterprises and their employees, and social organizations and their full-time employees.

The scope of unemployment insurance premiums: state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and their employees, institutions and their employees.

The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government may, in the light of the actual situation in the locality, provide for the inclusion of urban self-employed industrial and commercial households in the scope of basic old-age pension insurance and basic medical insurance, and also provide for the inclusion of social organizations and their full-time employees, privately-run non-enterprises and their employees, as well as urban self-employed industrial and commercial households and their employees, who have hired workers, in the scope of unemployment insurance.

The basis and rate of social insurance premiums shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant laws and administrative regulations and the provisions of the State Council.

Article 15 Where the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the Central Government stipulate that social insurance premiums are to be collected by the tax authorities, the tax authorities shall promptly provide the social insurance administration agencies with information on the contributions of the contributing units and the individuals who have paid the premiums; and the social insurance administration agencies shall summarize the relevant information and report it to the administrative department of labor security.

Article 16 The social insurance agency shall establish a record of contributions, including basic pension insurance, basic medical insurance and shall record individual accounts in accordance with the provisions. The social insurance agency is responsible for keeping the contribution records, and to ensure their integrity and security. The social insurance agency shall at least once a year to the individual contributors to send the basic pension insurance, basic medical insurance individual account notification form.

Contributing units and contributing individuals have the right to inquire about the contribution records in accordance with the regulations.