The pension card and social security card are the same, as follows:

1. Endowment insurance is one of the main items of social security. The main items of social insurance include endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, work injury insurance and maternity insurance;

2. Old-age insurance is a social insurance system in which workers get some financial compensation, material help and services from the government and society after reaching the statutory retirement age. State-owned enterprises, collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, private enterprises and other urban enterprises and their employees, institutions that implement enterprise management and their employees must participate in the basic old-age insurance.

The main functions of the social security card are:

1. Records of personal social security-related information, electronic vouchers and information inquiry;

2. Record the name, ID number, date of birth, gender, nationality, domicile and other related basic information of the insured;

3. You can inquire about the specific payment of the insured's pension, unemployment, medical care, work injury and maternity insurance;

4. The insured person goes to the hospital with a card for medical treatment, and goes to the pharmacy to spend money to buy medicine;

5. Social security affairs such as medical treatment, unemployment, pension, work injury and maternity can be handled;

6. The insured person can inquire about the accumulative total of endowment insurance and medical insurance;

7. You can handle social security matters such as getting a pension, provide employment certificates, pay social security fees, register for unemployment, and even participate in vocational training.

legal basis: article 11 of the social insurance law of the people's Republic of China

the basic old-age insurance combines social pooling with individual accounts.

The basic old-age insurance fund consists of contributions from employers and individuals and government subsidies.

article 12

the employer shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium according to the proportion of the total wages of its employees stipulated by the state and record it in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund.

employees should pay the basic old-age insurance premium according to the proportion of their salary stipulated by the state and record it in their personal accounts.

individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees who have participated in the basic old-age insurance shall pay the basic old-age insurance premiums in accordance with state regulations and record them in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund and individual account respectively.