Can social security be paid by individuals?

Legal analysis: individuals can pay social security as flexible employees, but they can only pay medical insurance and endowment insurance. Individuals who need to pay medical insurance and old-age insurance can bring relevant documents and materials to the social security agency where the household registration is located, participate in social security as individuals and go through the registration procedures for hospitalization insurance. The designated bank shall pay the fee in the form of personal savings card, agree on the deduction time, and pay it in full monthly/quarterly.

Legal basis: Article 60 of the Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * The employer shall declare by itself and pay the social insurance premium in full and on time. Except for legal reasons such as force majeure, the payment shall not be postponed or reduced. 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.