Shanghai social security card can still be used normally after it expires.

According to the relevant policies, social security cards that have passed the "validity period" of the card face can still be used normally at present, without any formalities. At the beginning, the validity period was mainly set to consider the service life of electronic chips, so as to facilitate the regular addition of new functions and expansion of stored information of social security cards according to the unified deployment of the country in the future. In actual use, the quality of many electronic chips is better than expected, and their service life has been prolonged, and there is no unified plan to upgrade the functions of chips in China in the near future.

The social security card can still be used after it expires, and the damage needs to be paid.

Some elderly people frequently use social security cards when seeking medical treatment, so many people's cards are worn or damaged. From the social security card service station, it is known that the cost of 20 yuan is needed to replenish the card.

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