Must social security be linked to the company to pay?

Legal analysis: No, it depends on the situation.

Employees should participate in employee social security, and unemployed people can participate in social security for flexible employees or social security for urban and rural residents where their household registration is located.

Social security doesn't have to be bought by the company. How to pay social security by yourself after leaving the company;

1. Individuals need to go to the local employment service center to register for unemployment with their ID cards and proof of dissolution of labor contracts, get the registration form, fill it out as required, apply for unemployment benefits, and apply for a re-employment concession card to enjoy relevant preferential policies.

2. To go to the medical insurance center for medical insurance, you need to bring unemployment certificate, re-employment concession card and ID card.

3. Pay the social security fees required during unemployment, and the place of payment: the personal payment window of the social security center under the jurisdiction of the local labor and social security department.

Required documents: endowment insurance handbook, endowment insurance personal account registration card, endowment insurance personal account seal, unemployment certificate, re-employment concession card, and social security formalities in the name of self-employment.

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

Article 4 Employers and individuals who pay social insurance premiums according to law in People's Republic of China (PRC) have the right to inquire about payment records and personal rights and interests records, and ask 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.

Article 58 An 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.