Isn't the social security card for nothing?

Social security cards can be issued automatically without paying social security. You should apply at the designated place. If you pay social security through your company, you should get a social security card from the social security application institution in the insured area within three months from the date of employment. If you are an individual who pays social security, you can also collect it yourself within three months. When it comes to changing units, if the original unit has submitted the relevant materials for making social security cards to the Social Security Bureau, then the social security cards will be collected by the original unit, and vice versa. Social security card * * * has eight functions, such as inquiring personal social security information, recording the insured's name, ID number, date of birth and other information, inquiring about the payment of five insurances, holding a card for medical treatment, handling social security affairs such as pension, medical care, unemployment, maternity and work injury. Some areas also provide social security cards to pay utilities and other functions. The biggest use of social security card is to go to the hospital to see a doctor and buy medicine. The money in the social security card belongs to the personal medical insurance account, and some of the money paid by the social security users of urban workers every month will enter the personal medical insurance account.

Legal basis: Article 57 of the Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the employing unit shall, within 30 days from 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. Where the social insurance registration items of the employing unit are changed or the employing unit is terminated according to law, it shall, within 30 days from the date of change or termination, go to the social insurance agency to handle the change or cancellation of social insurance registration. The market supervision and management department, the civil affairs department and the organization management organ shall promptly inform the social insurance agency of the establishment and termination of the employing unit, and the public security organ shall promptly inform the social insurance agency of the birth, death, household registration, migration and cancellation of the individual.