Why do rural medical insurance cards have to wait for half a year to get social security?

Rural medical insurance is a new rural cooperative medical insurance for farmers, and its competent department is the provincial health department; Medical insurance for urban workers is the medical insurance for urban workers and non-rural household registration personnel, and its competent department is the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.

Paying urban employee insurance and rural endowment insurance does not necessarily require issuing social security cards, because the part paid by individuals in the endowment insurance account is not stored in my social security card, but under the personal account of the social security center. With the social security card, there is no money in it, so it can only be used as an ordinary bank card. Only when you retire can you find it with a social security card and get a pension.

After the continuous payment of urban medical insurance for 6 months, you can apply for a medical insurance card, which can be consumed in hospitals or pharmacies; The insured persons of the new rural cooperative medical system will issue the registration certificate of the new rural cooperative medical system when they are insured, and they need to submit the certificate of cooperation to the hospital for reimbursement when they see a doctor.

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