Do interns need to pay social security?

Legal analysis: interns are still students, internships are not employment, and interns are not laborers in the sense of labor law. In the internship stage, the relationship between interns and employers is a labor relationship, not a labor relationship. Only labor relations can apply for social security, so interns do not need to pay social security.

Legal basis: Article 3 of the Provisional Regulations on the Collection and Payment of Social Insurance Fees: the scope of 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, and institutions and their employees that implement enterprise management.

The collection scope of basic medical insurance premium: state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and their employees, state organs and their employees, institutions and their employees, private non-enterprise units and their employees, social organizations and their full-time employees.

The collection scope of unemployment insurance premium: 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, according to local actual conditions, stipulate that urban individual industrial and commercial households should be included in the basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance coverage, and social organizations and their full-time staff, private non-enterprise units and their employees, and urban individual industrial and commercial households with employees and their employees should be included in the scope of unemployment insurance.

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