How to handle social security for flexible employees in Shanghai?

Legal Analysis: Eligible applicants (flexible employees) bring their ID card, employment unemployment registration certificate or labor manual, real-name registration system settlement account card/discount, household registration book and personal social insurance registration form to the street/town/township community affairs acceptance center where their household registration is located or where they live to apply for insurance.

Legal basis: Notice of Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau on Several Issues Concerning Flexible Employment Personnel's Participation in Basic Old-age Pension and Medical Insurance for Urban Workers in this Municipality.

1. The term "flexible employees" as mentioned in this Notice refers to self-employed persons with household registration in this Municipality, individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees, men under 60 years of age, women under 55 years of age, and other flexible employees with legitimate economic income.

Second, flexible employees can apply for insurance to the community affairs acceptance service center in the street or township (town) where they are registered in accordance with the regulations, and the community affairs acceptance service center will go through the registration procedures for basic old-age pension and medical insurance at the social insurance agency and pay the basic old-age pension and medical insurance premiums.