Can social security be paid by itself without the company?

No unit or individual can pay social security, only pension and medical insurance. Individuals can go to the social security service point of the local community street or the county social security bureau (labor and social security bureau) to be freelancers.

Individuals can pay social security (unemployment, pension, medical care), but they cannot pay work-related injury and maternity insurance.

There is a difference between individuals paying social security and companies paying social security. Generally speaking, companies pay many kinds of social security, including endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance, while individuals pay only endowment insurance and medical insurance. When individuals leave their jobs, they can participate in social security as flexible employees.

Extended data:

If you didn't participate in insurance in the past, you can only participate in insurance at the place where you are registered, and pay the insurance premium according to the flexible employment policy. If you are insured, you can renew your insurance directly and then join the insurance according to the flexible employment policy.

The payment base of social security refers to the wage base used by enterprises or individual employees to calculate and pay social insurance premiums. This base multiplied by the prescribed rate is the amount of social insurance premiums that enterprises or individuals should pay.

Local social security payment bases are linked to local average wage data. It is determined according to the average monthly wage income of employees from June 1 day to February 1 day in the previous year. Once a year, it will not change within one year after confirmation. The time to apply for adjusting the social security base is generally in July.

Enterprises generally take the total wages of enterprise employees as the payment base, and individual employees take half of their average monthly salary in the previous year as the salary base for individuals to pay social insurance premiums. In China, the payment base is approved by the social insurance agency according to the employer's declaration.

Legal basis:

Article 60 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law

The employing unit shall declare itself and pay social insurance premiums in full and on time, and shall not postpone or reduce the payment except for legal reasons such as force majeure. The social insurance premiums that employees should pay shall be withheld and remitted by the employer, and the employer shall inform me of the details of paying social insurance premiums on a monthly basis.

Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in social insurance in the employing units and other flexible employees can pay social insurance premiums directly to the social insurance premium collection agencies.