How and where to pay social security for flexible employment?

The social security bureau where the household registration is located. The payment of flexible employees must be made in the place where they are registered, and the basic old-age insurance account and basic medical insurance account must be opened in the social security bureau where they are registered. As flexible employees, they can choose to participate in endowment insurance and medical insurance, but they cannot participate in maternity insurance, industrial injury insurance and unemployment insurance.

Flexible employees who want to buy social insurance should apply to the local social insurance agency and then apply for social insurance registration. After the social insurance agency explains the social insurance situation to the parties, the parties shall determine the payment level according to the actual situation. After recognition, flexible employees can pay social insurance premiums to social insurance premium collection agencies.

Social insurance is a social and economic system that provides income or compensation for those who lose their ability to work, are temporarily unemployed or suffer losses due to health reasons. The main items of social insurance include endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance.

Basic functions of social security:

1, the function of stabilizing social life

2, the function of redistribution

3. The function of promoting social and economic development: First, the social insurance system plays an important role as an important tool for demand management, thus playing an active role in the economy; Second, the effective use of social insurance funds can promote the sustained prosperity of the economy; Third, social security has become the basic condition for enterprises to recruit talents.

Legal basis:

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

Article 60

The employing unit shall declare itself and pay social insurance premiums in full and on time, and shall not postpone or reduce the payment except for legal reasons such as force majeure. The social insurance premiums that employees should pay shall be withheld and remitted by the employer, and the employer shall inform me of the details of paying social insurance premiums on a monthly basis. Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in social insurance in the employing units and other flexible employees can pay social insurance premiums directly to the social insurance premium collection agencies.