Can released prisoners participate in social security?

Legal analysis: prisoners can continue to pay social security after they are released from prison. The state has corresponding regulations on the old-age insurance for criminals. If an employee is sentenced or reeducation through labor, his personal account shall be kept by the social insurance agency during the period of serving his sentence or reeducation through labor, and continue to bear interest at the bookkeeping rate. After reaching the statutory retirement age, the personal account amount will bear interest according to the bank's savings deposit rate for urban and rural residents in the same period. Employees who have been sentenced or re-educated through labor and have been released after reaching the statutory retirement age, and whose payment period is "middle-aged" 10 years or "new-aged" 15 years, can go through retirement procedures and pay a basic pension on a monthly basis, in which the basic pension is handled in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. After retirement, the sentenced or reeducation-through-labor workers do not enjoy the basic old-age insurance benefits during the period of serving their sentences and reeducation through labor; The basic pension after the expiration of the restoration of political rights or reeducation through labor shall be paid according to the standards before serving the sentence and reeducation through labor, and then adjusted normally according to the regulations. Retirees who have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment with probation and have not been deprived of political rights can continue to enjoy the basic old-age insurance benefits, and the basic pension will not be adjusted during the probation period.

Legal basis: Article 58 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law. The employing unit shall handle social insurance registration for employees within 30 days from the date of employment. If the social insurance has not been registered, the social insurance agency shall verify the social insurance premium it should pay. Employees-free individual industrial and commercial households who voluntarily participate in social insurance, part-time employees who do not participate in social insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees shall apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration. The state establishes a national unified personal social security number. Personal social security number is a citizen's identity number.