Social security cards only have electronic cards but no physical cards.

If you have an electronic social security card and no physical card, you can also use the basic functions of the social security card and enjoy basic protection. If users want to use the physical social security card, they can go to the local social security bureau to handle it. The electronic social security card and the physical social security card have the same function, but the difference lies in the presence or absence of physical media.

Electronic social security card is a valid electronic certificate for online application of entity social security card issued by the national social security card service platform and managed by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. It has one-to-one correspondence and unique mapping with the entity social security card, and has the same status and function.

One: How to pay social security after leaving the company?

1. After an individual leaves his job, the company will stop paying social security for him. After you find a new work unit, the new work unit will continue to handle social security procedures for you.

2. If you haven't found a new job and can't buy social security after leaving your job, you can choose to pay flexible social security as a flexible employee. In this way, you can only buy old-age care and medical care, but you can't buy the other three. Or you can find some social security payment institutions to pay social security, so you can buy five kinds of insurance, but in addition to the cost of buying insurance, you also need to pay some service fees, which has certain requirements for the economic conditions of the insured.

Everyone comes to participate in social security in the name of flexible employees or individual industrial and commercial households. You need to bring the original and photocopy of your valid ID card, the original and photocopy of your household registration book or the original and photocopy of your business license when you join the insurance.

After the materials are prepared, you can go directly to the local social security agency to go through the insurance formalities. The general staff will assist you in handling it. After completion, you just need to go home and wait for the social security card. It usually takes about three to six months to get a social security card. After processing, they will tell everyone to pick it up by text message or phone.

Legal basis:

Measures of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Social Security Cards

Article 2 The term "social security card" as mentioned in these Measures refers to an integrated circuit card issued to the public and mainly used for government social management and public services in the fields of human resources and social security.

Social security card is a electronic certificate for cardholders to enjoy the rights and interests of social security and public employment services. It has the basic functions of information recording, information inquiry and business handling.

Article 3 Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is responsible for managing the issuance and application of national social security cards. Provincial and municipal human resources and social security departments are responsible for the issuance and application management of social security cards in the region, and their subordinate information comprehensive management institutions specifically undertake the related affairs of social security card issuance and technical management.

Article 5 Provincial human resources and social security departments or municipal human resources and social security departments may issue social security cards with the approval of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. No other institution or organization may issue social security cards.