The reporter learned from the Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security yesterday that villages and towns in Sichuan Province have fully launched the 2015 social security card issuance work. This year, the focus will be on applying for social security cards to in-service employees of participating units. In the future, the social security card will gradually replace the original medical insurance card as the only medium for inpatient and outpatient purchases of drugs.

It is understood that the insured unit handles the social security card in three steps: first, the insured unit determines the social security card to be loaded into the bank; second, the insured unit cooperates with the bank to carry out data verification and collection according to the requirements of the local human and social department. Work; Third, the unit organizes its employees to bring their original ID cards to the loading bank branch to receive the social security card.

According to the relevant staff of the Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, the social security card has social functions such as information recording, information inquiry, medical expense settlement, social insurance payment, and benefit recei. It can also be used as a bank card and has financial functions such as cash storage and transfer.