Social security cards can be canceled. The social security card cancellation process is as follows:

1. If the insured person who participates in the comprehensive basic medical insurance terminates the social insurance relationship in our city due to various reasons and needs to go through the social security card cancellation procedures, he or she can bring the relevant information to The Medical Work Injury Benefit Section of the Municipal Social Security Bureau handles the card cancellation business;

2. The social security staff will print out the social security card cancellation notice after verifying the information, and the cardholder will bring the social security card cancellation notice and the social security card to the card issuance center. The card cancellation procedure can be handled at any branch of the bank within the jurisdiction of our city;

3. After approval by the branch staff, the cardholder’s medical account will be canceled. The remaining balance of the medical account, plus accrued interest, must be transferred to the financial account of the cardholder's social security card after ten working days.

After the payer registers for insurance, if one of the following circumstances occurs, he must go through the social insurance registration and cancellation procedures:

1. The payer is dissolved, bankrupt, revoked, or merged and other circumstances;

2. A payer who does not need to cancel registration with the industrial and commercial administration authorities according to regulations has been approved or announced to be terminated or dissolved by the relevant competent authority;

3 , The fee payer handles deregistration at the industrial and commercial administration authorities in accordance with regulations or has its business license revoked by the industrial and commercial administrative authorities. If the payment unit is disbanded, bankrupt, or cancelled, it must be approved by the relevant department within 30 days; if payment is terminated due to other circumstances, it must go to the local tax authority with relevant information to apply for social insurance payment information within 30 days from the date of termination of payment obligations. Unregister.

To sum up, if you leave your job and go to work in another city, you can apply to cancel your social security card. However, even if you change your job, you still need to apply for social security, so there is no need to cancel it in this case. Social security card, just go through the social security transfer procedures.

Legal basis:

Article 2 of the "Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China"

The state establishes basic pension insurance, basic medical insurance, and work-related injury insurance , unemployment insurance, maternity insurance and other social insurance systems to protect citizens’ rights to obtain material assistance from the state and society in accordance with the law in the event of old age, illness, work injury, unemployment, childbirth, etc.