Do you need to activate financial features to use your social security card to buy drugs?

You don't need to activate the financial function to buy medicine with your social security card.

The first time a participant uses his or her social security card at a designated pharmacy, he or she only needs to insert the original card and then insert the social security card according to the requirements to activate the medical insurance function of the social security card; the financial function of the social security card is not activated, it can still receive funds, but in order to use the financial function, such as withdrawing money or spending money, he or she needs to activate it in the bank that issued the card first. Therefore, when purchasing medicines at a designated pharmacy, you only need to use the activated medical insurance function and do not need to activate the financial function.

Basic functions of the social security card:

1. Identification: The social security card contains the basic information of the cardholder, which is used to identify the identity of the insured person;

2. Information record: Record the social security contributions and use of the insured person;

3. Medical services: The social security card can be used to pay for the personal account when you visit the designated medical institutions;

4. p>4. Social security inquiry: cardholders can inquire about their personal social insurance information through the social security card;

5. Electronic vouchers: the social security card serves as an electronic voucher for proving the social security rights and interests enjoyed by the insured.

In summary, when using the social security card to purchase medicines, you only need to activate the medical insurance function, and do not need to activate the financial function.

Legal basis:

Notice on Loading Financial Functions on Social Security Cards

II. Functional Positioning

Social security cards loaded with financial functions are mainly realized by loading banking applications on the social security cards. The social security card loaded with financial functions (hereinafter referred to as the social security card with financial functions), as the cardholder enjoys the rights and interests of social security and public ****employment services electronic vouchers, with information records, information inquiries, business handling and other basic functions of social security cards, at the same time, it can be used as a bank card, with cash deposits and withdrawals, money transfers, consumption and other financial functions. The financial application of the social security card with financial function is RMB debit application, and does not support credit function for the time being, and its scope of use is limited to the territory of the People's Republic of China*** and the State. Social security card with financial functions of the card medium for the contact chip card, you can use the chip plus hidden magnetic stripe composite card in the form of temporary transition, the chip should contain both human resources social security applications (hereinafter referred to as social security applications) and financial applications.