1. If an individual is a self-employed business owner, you can pay provident fund for yourself, because our country stipulates that self-employed business owners can pay provident fund for themselves.

2. If an individual is an employee of a unit, if the company does not pay provident fund items, you can try to communicate with the company leaders about paying provident fund, but if the company cannot pay, you can pay it all by yourself.

3. If an individual is unemployed, doing micro-business or Taobao, not a unit job, and not a self-employed business owner, you cannot pay provident fund. In this case, you can only pay provident fund by yourself through the affiliated unit.