How do self-employed people buy social security for employees?

Self-employed individuals can generally purchase social security for employees in the following ways:

1. Self-employed persons shall, within 30 days from the date of obtaining the business license, bring the business license or registration certificate and other relevant documents to the social security agency for social security registration.

2. The social security agency will issue the social security registration certificate after the audit, which generally includes the name, domicile, business place, unit type, legal person or person in charge, bank account and other matters stipulated by the administrative department of labor security of the State Council.

3. After completing the social security payment registration formalities, the self-employed should also pay the social security fee on the date specified by the social security agency from 1 to 15 every month, and the social security fee payable by the employee is usually withheld and remitted by the unit from the employee's own salary.

Individual industrial and commercial households shall provide the following materials for handling social security insurance procedures:

1. Business license of individual industrial and commercial households (copy) (original and copy).

2. Identity card of the employer of individual industrial and commercial households (if it is necessary to entrust others to act as agents, a power of attorney shall be issued, and the identity cards of both the client and the principal shall be provided) (original and photocopy).

3. Industrial and commercial bank card, passbook or bank license for individual industrial and commercial households to open an account in ICBC under the employer's name (original and photocopy).

4. Original basic information form of ICBC bank account (it can be printed at ICBC outlets with the employer's ID card and bank card).

5. Notice of individual industrial and commercial households paying social insurance premiums.

To sum up, self-employed individuals can bring materials to the social security window to buy social security for employees.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Article 57

The employing unit shall, within 30 days from the date of its establishment, apply to the local social insurance agency for social insurance registration with its business license, registration certificate or unit seal. The social insurance agency shall, within fifteen days from the date of receiving the application, examine and issue the social insurance registration certificate.