Can the new social security card be used directly?

The new social security card needs to be activated before it can be used. The activation method is as follows:

1. Users can ask the on-site staff to help activate their social security cards for the first time.

2. On-the-job employees can call the social security service hotline to help activate the social security card through manual customer service;

3. If the user is busy, you can also entrust others to handle it. The trustee should hold the social security card, power of attorney and personal identity documents to the social security agency for activation;

4. Use it for the first time in a designated medical insurance hospital or pharmacy for activation.

Check whether the social security card is activated as follows:

1. You can use the social security card in the designated social security medical institution, for example, you can go to the pharmacy to buy medicine. If it can be used, the personal account of the social security card has been activated;

2. You can bring your social security card to the local convenience service center to check the status of your personal account.

3. Query whether the social security card financial account has been activated. You can directly insert the social security card into the ATM for use. If the bank card function cannot be used normally, it means that the financial account has not been activated.

4. You can bring your social security card to the issuing bank to check whether the financial account has been activated. Use social security cards in designated hospitals or pharmacies. If it can be used normally, the social security card has been activated.

Legal basis: Article 58 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law.

The employing unit shall, within 30 days from the date of employment, apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration for its employees.

If the social insurance has not been registered, the social insurance agency shall verify the social insurance premium it should pay.

Employees-free individual industrial and commercial households who voluntarily participate in social insurance, part-time employees who do not participate in social insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees shall apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration.

The state establishes a national unified personal social security number. Personal social security number is a citizen's identity number.