What is a social security protection number

Social security number is the retrieval number of each person's social security, according to the provisions of the law, the individual social security number for the citizenship number. And at this stage, although it is also common everywhere to use the ID number as the retrieval query serial number, but there are also some computerized serial numbers, manual numbers and other places to retrieve the serial number.

Social security number is the citizen's identity card number, a *** have 18 bits. The social security number is the same as the basic pension number.

What is a social security card?

The social security card is an integrated circuit card (IC card) that is uniformly planned by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and issued by local labor security departments for the society, and is applied in various business fields of labor and social security. Among them, those issued to urban workers, the unemployed and the retired are called social security (personal) cards, and those issued to employers are called social security (employer) cards. Since the social security (personal) card is currently the focus of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security's card-related planning and specification, the actual issuance of localities also focuses on this kind of card, so usually what we call social security card, is the social security (personal) card.

In summary, the "social security number" is the national social security number is the ID number of the insured person.

Legal basis:

"The Chinese people's **** and the State social security card management measures"

Article 2

The social security card referred to in these measures refers to the issuance of the public for the public, and is mainly used in the human resources and social security field of the government's social management and the public **** services of the integrated circuit card.

Social security card is the cardholder to enjoy the rights and interests of social security and public **** employment services electronic vouchers, with information records, information query, business handling and other basic functions.