Legal analysis: The location for handling housing provident funds is the local provident fund management office, which can handle municipal provident funds, provincial provident funds, directly-affiliated unit provident funds, etc.

The housing provident fund management center shall set up a special housing provident fund account in the entrusted bank.

1. Generally, it will be handled at the Provident Fund Management Center.

The housing provident fund management center shall establish a detailed account of employees' housing provident funds to record the deposits, withdrawals, etc. of individual employees' housing provident funds.

2. Urban individual industrial and commercial households and freelancers can apply to pay housing provident fund (note: not every community city housing provident fund management center allows urban individual industrial and commercial households and freelancers to pay housing provident fund. For specific information, please consult the local

Housing provident fund management agency).

Legal basis: Article 3 of the "Housing Provident Fund Management Regulations" The housing provident fund paid by individual employees and the housing provident fund paid by the employee's unit for employees belong to the individual employee.

Article 4 The management of the housing provident fund shall be based on the principles of decision-making by the housing provident fund management committee, operation of the housing provident fund management center, storage in special bank accounts, and financial supervision.

Article 7 The construction administrative department of the State Council shall, together with the financial department of the State Council and the People's Bank of China, formulate housing provident fund policies and supervise their implementation.

The construction administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces and autonomous regions, together with the financial departments at the same level and branches of the People's Bank of China, are responsible for the supervision of the implementation of housing provident fund management regulations and policies within their respective administrative regions.