What are the effects of paying social security in two places at the same time?

If you pay social security in two places at the same time, you can only enjoy the health insurance reimbursement in one place. If you pay social security in two places at the same time, it is possible to cause errors in social security payment, which will lead to social security can not be paid, and finally cause the interruption of social security payment, social security payment is invalid.

Repeated payment of the same kind of social security in a different place: the insured person at the same time to continue two and more urban workers basic pension insurance relationship, and repeat the payment of old-age insurance premiums, by the social insurance agency and the consultation with the person to determine to retain one of the basic pension insurance relationship and personal account, the other relationship during the same period to be cleaned up, the amount of the personal account storage returned to me, the corresponding personal contribution period is not double counting. Repeated payment of different kinds of social security in different places: The second case of repeated payment is the repeated payment of different kinds of social security ("occupational insurance" and "residence insurance") in two places. For multiple pension insurance relationships within different basic pension insurance systems, the insured person participates in urban workers' pension insurance and urban and rural residents' pension insurance at the same time in the same year. If a participant joins both the urban workers' pension insurance and the urban and rural residents' pension insurance in the same year, only the urban workers' pension insurance contribution period will be counted for the duplicate contribution period, and the corresponding individual contribution and collective subsidy for the duplicate contribution period for the urban and rural residents' pension insurance will be returned to the participant.

Legal Basis

The Labor Law of the People's Republic of China*** and of the State of China (as amended in 2018)

Article 72: The social insurance fund determines the source of funds in accordance with the type of insurance, and gradually implements social coordination. Employers and workers must participate in social insurance and pay social insurance premiums in accordance with the law

The Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China (2018 Amendments)

Article 60 Employers shall declare on their own, and pay social insurance premiums in full and on time, and shall not defer or reduce or waive their payments except for force majeure and other legal reasons. The social insurance premiums to be paid by employees shall be withheld and paid by the employer on behalf of the employees, and the employer shall inform the employees of the details of the payment of social insurance premiums on a monthly basis.

Individual entrepreneurs without employees, part-time workers who do not participate in social insurance with their employers, and other flexibly employed persons may pay social insurance premiums directly to the social insurance premium collection organization.