How old do you have to be to pay for social security

Legal analysis: you can participate in social insurance from the age of 16. Participate in the work of the institutions and enterprises employees, from the beginning of employment should pay social insurance. Institutions and institutions staff, enterprise unit employees, from the beginning of the payment of social insurance, to pay until the age of retirement, to the age of retirement, the minimum contribution should be 15 years, before you can apply for retirement, receive pension. Flexible employment pension insurance participants, the cumulative minimum contribution of 15 years, to the retirement age for retirement.

Legal basis: "Chinese People's **** and the State Social Insurance Law" Article 16 Participating in the basic old-age pension insurance individuals, reaching the legal retirement age of accumulated contributions for fifteen years, the monthly basic pension. Individuals who have participated in basic old-age insurance and have contributed for less than fifteen years by the time they reach the legal retirement age may contribute until they reach the full fifteen years and receive the basic pension on a monthly basis; they may also be transferred to the new type of rural social old-age insurance or the urban residents' social old-age insurance, and enjoy the corresponding old-age insurance treatment in accordance with the provisions of the State Council.