Can individuals pay employee social security?

Individuals can buy social security. Individuals buying social security are actually nothing more than participating in the social security of employees or urban and rural residents as flexible employees. Moreover, if you participate in employee social security as a flexible employee, you generally only need to pay medical insurance and endowment insurance, and you must pay it in the area where your household registration is located. If an individual pays social security for the affiliated unit, it is no different from the social security paid by the unit, but at the same time, it is necessary to provide a certain service fee to the affiliated unit.

Want to buy personal social security, you can have the following two ways:

1. Go to the local social security bureau: If an individual needs to buy social security, he can go directly to the local social security bureau with his ID card, and the window staff of the social security bureau will go through the formalities for him, but if a third party is required to pay social security, he must also pay a certain service fee;

2. Direct online processing: In some areas, the online processing authority for social security has been opened, and social security can be purchased directly online, but the processing authority needs to be opened. You can consult the local social security bureau for details.

To sum up, individuals can purchase employee social security. Individuals can also participate in employee social security as flexible employees, which is another kind of social security for urban and rural residents.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law Article 4 Employers and individuals in People's Republic of China (PRC) pay social insurance premiums according to law, and have the right to inquire about payment records and personal rights and interests records, and require social insurance agencies to provide social insurance consultation and other related services. Individuals enjoy social insurance benefits according to law and have the right to supervise the payment of their own units.