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The Unified Portal of EPFO was made operational on 23rd December, 2016. A number of references are being received from the employers highlighting the problems on the portal in upfront allotment of UAN, connectivity issues, login issues, website slowdown/hanging, awareness of new procedures etc. IS division is making efforts to remove the difficulties and stabilize the unified portal. In view of the above, EPFO has decided that, as a special case concession of grace period of 5 days is allowed for the employers to deposit the contribution and other dues for the month of December, 2016 by 20th January, 2017.

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has made it mandatory for its about 50 lakh pensioners and around 4 crore subscribers to provide either Aadhaar or a proof that they have applied for it till 31st Jan 2017  to remain the beneficiary of its social security schemes.   Gazette Notification No.S.O.26(E) dated 01-04-2017  find below 

Employees Provident Fund Organisation has introduced a new Notification, in which special drive will be initiated   from 1st January, 2017 by the EPFO for coverage of the Establishment which are not yet covered but which are liable for EPF coverage. The Establishment which is legally liable for coverage will be covered under the Employees Provident Fund Act. According to the notification, following benefits will be provided to the defaulters: Only Employer Share will be levied, No Employees Share. Interest as applicable on Employer’s Share. Damages @ Rs.1/- Per Annum. The above will be with a condition that, the Establishment is not legally liable before 01.04.2009. (Notification is Attached) New Scheme for PF Defaulters Frequently Asked Questions 1.  What is Employees’ Enrollment Campaign, 2017? This is a Campaign to provide opportunity to the employers to voluntarily come forward and declare details of all such employees who were entitled for PF membership...

As per new Proposed Employees Provident Fund Amendment 2016 Employees with salary earning up to Rs.25,000 per month will be covered under Employees Provident Fund after the final approval Refer:-  http://streethr.blogspot.in/2016/12/epfo-takes-steps-to-cover-contract.html   The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)  has written to the Centre Government requesting to increase exciting  PF wage ceiling  to Rs.25,000 from Rs. 15,000 per month for its social security schemes raising the opportunity of more workers being added to the provident fund scheme. All employees earning salary of up to Rs.25,000 per month will be eligible to receive provident fund coverage. At present, Employees Provident Fund is optional for workers earning more than Rs.15,000 per month since current wage limit fixed at Rs. 15,000 According to the minutes of the meeting of EPFO’s sub-committee on contract workers, held on November 7 stated  “It was (unanimously) deci...

Promoting and Ensuring Cashless Transfer of Wages to Workers  Labour and Employment Ministry Efforts bring over Nine Lakh Workers into banking fold within six days  The huge efforts of Labour and Employment Ministry have succeeded in bringing over Nine Lakh workers into banking fold within six days of launching a campaign on 26th November. It may be noted that already 25.68 crore Jandhan Accounts are existing and all the left over workers are being covered.2016 to open bank accounts of workers. Till last evening (1st December,2016) 9,15,431(nine lakh fifteen thousand four hundred and thirty one) bank accounts were opened by organizing 33,145 (thirty three thousand one hundred and fort five) camps for this purpose. Within four days till 29th November, total 3,87,037 bank accounts were opened by holding 15,134 camps across the country. (We had already informed  premium regarding this camps) On30th November 9,085 camps were organized and 2,90,224 bank accoun...

EPFO Takes Steps to Cover Contract Workers in Government Departments  Last Date for Submission of Life Certificate Extended Till 15th January 2017 ECR 2.0, UAN 2.0 and PMRPY Services to be Made Operational from December 2016   A sub-committee of Central Board of Trustees, EPF met on 7th November 2016. The committee noted that the coverage of contract workers increased from 89.25 lakh to 1.02 crore.  The Committee however further noted that large number of contact workers in the country still remain deprived of PF benefits. This is because many Central Government Departments/ Organizations do not come under the purview of the EPF and MP Act, 1952. Considering the social security as the basic right of all workers, it decided to recommend to the Government of India for cancellation of exclusion to such categories, including Indian Railways. The Committee noted that transfer of accounts of contract workers is now possible through Universal Account Number (UA...

Dear Reader, Greetings from Street HR!!! Now, employer can request for delinking of wrongly linked UAN to the concern field office. the best thing is that it needed to be done via email. Please find the process follow below:- Please find the notification below :- 

In today epoch there are many establishments engaged into given that manpower supplier/facility provider/ security agencies covered under EPF & MP Act 1952. Many complaints were collected into the bucket of EPF regional offices via written letter or on Shram Suvidh portal or from other approaches on non-report of all absolute employees engaged at a respective client place/principal employer’s place by establishments. Now EPF central authority issued a new circular with no. Compliance/C-III/011/3(18)2015/DL/DO-Ref/8654 regarding above stated matter and decided in next to this –    Ø   It shall be mandatory on the part of Enforcement officer, to report number of employer in respect of these establishments with reference to each of principle employer /client being served by these establishments. Ø   In case of any 7A proceeding, in respect of such establishment, it shall be mandatory on the part of officer working as Departmental Representative to rep...

Many employees forget to transfer the balance from their previous provident fund (PF) accounts when they change jobs. Some of them even withdraw the money from PF account. Since PF is meant for one’s retirement years, financial experts suggest that the accumulated savings should not be withdrawn during one’s working years. To encourage employees consolidate multiple accounts, Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has launched a special drive called “One Employee-One EPF Account”. Here is a 10-point cheat-sheet: EPFO has set up a special portal for the “One Employee-One EPF Account” drive. Under this drive EPFO will actively help those who want to transfer the balance from their past PF accounts to current PF account which is linked to universal account number (UAN). You need to enter your activated UAN along with your current UAN-linked PF number and mobile number registered with the EPFO. Both your UAN and PF number is mentioned on your salary slip. If your UAN is a...

Government is working on a scheme to provide low-cost housing for retirement fund body EPFO's over five crore subscribers, Parliament was informed Monday.   "Government is exploring the possibility for providing a suitable low-cost housing scheme for subscribers of Employees' Pension Fund. It is in preliminary discussion stage," Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.   The minister was replying to a question whether the government or the EPFO has introduced/proposes to introduce a scheme to allow its subscribers to pledge their future PF contribution to buy low-cost houses. Last year, the proposal was also listed on the agenda of the meeting of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's EPFO trustees meeting on September 16. The proposal was to allow its subscribers to pledge their future PF contribution to buy low-cost houses. A report of the expert committee on housing facility for the subscribers was als...

In India non-government employee during their are protected by the social security in the forms of pensions under he Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. This Act plays a very important role in developing the corpus to be used during the post-retirement stage of an employee.   Employees covered under the EPF Act contribute 12% of their wages every month towards their provident fund.  The employer in turn makes a matching contribution to the fund.  The money goes into a fund managed by the Employees' Provident Fund Organization, the apex decision making body, under the aegis of the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The government permits employers to manage own provident fund schemes, provided they comply with certain conditions.  The EPF Act offers flexibility of withdrawals - an employee can withdraw for higher education or for the purchase of a house.  Withdrawals may also be made for paying premium amount on one's li...

New PF withdrawal norms put on hold till July 31    The labour ministry on Monday (18 th April 2016) eased the planned restriction on withdrawal of contribution to the employees’ provident fund. It said withdrawal can be allowed for housing, major medical treatment for self and family members, medical, dental and engineering education of children, and for their marriage. The relaxation has also been extended to members who have joined an establishment belonging to or under the central or state government, and become a member of contributory provident fund or old age pension. These norms will come into effect from August. The amendments were made after labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya received representations from trade unions. A government release said the ministry had decided to pay the full accumulations to the credit of a member, including interest up to the date of payment, if he or she fulfils any of the above-mentioned conditions. In February, the...

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NEW DELHI: Retirement fund body EPFO today deferred till April 30 implementation of new norms that restrict 100 per cent withdrawal of provident fund by members after unemployment of more than two months, among others  he EPFO subscribers who are out of job for more than two months can file for full and final settlement of provident fund till month end. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/51651337.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst The EPFO subscribers who are out of job for more than two months can file for full and final settlement of provident fund till month end. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/51651337.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst tirement fund body EPFO today deferred till April 30 implementation of new norms that restrict 100 per cent withdrawal of provident fund by members after unemployment of more than two months, ...

If you are a registered member with EPFO’s UAN Member Portal , by now you would have been familiar with the facilities that are available on the portal. But two facilities like” online transfer of EPF claims” and “online checking of the status of the transferred claims” are still not available. EPFO states that this is still under progress. However, you can still make EPF online transfer claim through EPFO’s Online Transfer Claim Portal (OTCP). Below is the procedure on how to do EPF transfer online. What is the procedure to submit EPF Online Transfer Claim through OTCP? Check Eligibility for filing Online Transfer Claim : To file a EPF transfer claim online, the member IDs (Your present & previous) should be available in EPFO database and your employer should have registered the digital signatures of his authorized signatories with EPFO on the portal. Follow below points to know whether you are eligible to file a online Transfer Claim: Visit www.epfindia.gov.i...

The Government has launched a Compliance Analysis & Monitoring System under which the Principal employers will upload contract details awarded to be made available to EPFO for checking. After the data is collected from different sources, they will be forwarded to field offices with specific direction who will take compliance action and upload the report. Thus, more contract workers will be brought under EPFO without causing undue interruption in the work of principal employers.