EPF is a primary savings tool for large number of people working in private organized sector in India. EPF accounts and EPF balance is managed by Indian Government agency called 'Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)'.
Traditionally it has been very difficult to check EPF balance because of lots of paper work and time involved. It was also difficult to ...
EPFO has recently launched a new portal for EPF called unifiedPortal. This portal for members / employees was launched in Dec, 2016 and after few weeks of down time, it has now started working fine. We used the 'Download Passbook' feature on 20th January 2017 to check the current EPF balance, and the unifiedportal worked just fine. Here is a detailed guide on unified portal and its features.
EPF (Employee Provident Fund) managed by EPFO is India's main social security scheme having more than 4 crore members. Though EPF members used to face tough time figuring out their balance in epf account. But this is now a thing of past. Due to recent changes with UAN and online services provided by EPFO, now it is easy to check your epf balance on mobile.
Lately it has become compulsory to link/seed your Aadhaar number to your EPF account (UAN) to ensure smooth service. A successfully linked Aadhaar number is useful for two cases:
EPFO (Employee Provident fund organisation) has been working hard to provide a set of working online uan portal for its more than 6 crore members, but these portal are either changing too fast or or down, thus leading to more confusion and frustration among members.
Here are your guide to navigate among these portals.
Lately Employee Provident Fund Organization(EPFO) has mandated the linking of Aadhaar number for every EPF member who is also utilizing Employee Pension Scheme (EPS).
As per EPF rules, typically a employer contributes 12% of basic towards EPF. Out of the above 12%, 8.33% goes in Employee Pension Scheme subject to a maximum of Rs 1250. Thus mostly every member of EPF is also...
Lately EPFO operated unified portal epf has faced lot of technical problems and remained down for most of the time. This has led to lot of bad press for the EPFO and digital initiatives launched by Indian Government. EPF remains one of the most important contributory social security scheme in India and its more than 5 crore members wants an...
Employee Provident Fund (EPF or PF) is the main pension scheme for large number of people working in private organized sector in India. It is managed by a government organisation called 'Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)'. It is one of the largest social security organisations in India in terms of the number of covered beneficiaries and the volume of financial transactions undertaken. ...
On March 6th 2017, PFRDA (Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority) in india has issued detailed instructions about transferring money from EPF to NPS.
EPF is india's primary social security scheme for private sector and at this moment has more than 6 crore members. Though EPF primarily invests in debt - thus giving interest in the order of 7 to 10%. NPS (National Pension Scheme) is ...
EPF (Employee Provident Fund) is India's main social security scheme covering more than 15 crore workers across India. Lately EPFO (Employee Provident Fund organization) has been working on digitising their systems so that members always have instant visibility about their balance and can withdraw it without going through lot of hassle. To simplify the process they have ...