Do self-employed people need to pay social security?

Need. Individual industrial and commercial households can pay social security.

1. The social security procedures of individual industrial and commercial households are basically the same as those of enterprises. According to the relevant regulations, you should go to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration with business license or registration certificate and other relevant documents within 30 days from the date of establishment. Social insurance agencies will issue social insurance registration certificates after examination. The contents of social insurance registration include: unit name, domicile, business place, unit type, legal representative or person in charge, account number of the bank where the account is opened, and other matters stipulated by the administrative department of labor and social security of the State Council;

2. After going through the payment registration formalities, pay the social insurance premium within 1 to 15 days per month according to the date stipulated by the social insurance agency.

How do individual industrial and commercial households pay social security?

Generally speaking, there are two options for self-employed individuals to pay social security. One is to pay social security for yourself. This is to participate in personal insurance, and you can participate in residents' medical insurance and residents' old-age insurance. Payment methods and fees are the same as those of urban and rural residents. Another way is to pay social security as a self-employed person. In this case, you need to pay for the employees you hire, and you must have the organization code, otherwise you can't pay.

To sum up, individual industrial and commercial households can pay social security, and there are two ways to pay social security, namely personal identity and self-employed.

Legal basis:

Article 12 of the Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)

The employing unit shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium according to the proportion of the total wages of its employees stipulated by the state, and record it in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund.

Employees shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium in accordance with the proportion of wages stipulated by the state and record it in their personal accounts.

Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees who have participated in the basic old-age insurance shall pay the basic old-age insurance premiums in accordance with state regulations and record them in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund and individual accounts respectively.

Article 13

Before employees of state-owned enterprises and institutions participate in the basic old-age insurance, the basic old-age insurance premiums payable during the payment period shall be borne by the government.

When the basic old-age insurance fund is insufficient to pay, the government gives subsidies.