TWO UANS

Correction, updations to EPF account: The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has made changes to the standard operating procedure (SOP) for collecting joint declarations to address inaccuracies in members' and employers' Universal Account...

The UAN is constant throughout your career; even if you change jobs over the years, your UAN will remain the same. With the use of the Universal Account Number, or UAN, one can merge their multiple EPF accounts.

The EPFO has especially outlined the procedural complications involved in UAN generation/linking, KYC seeding, blocking, unblocking, and paying claims for transaction-less accounts and inoperative Accounts. Let us take a look at what the EPFO SOP ha...

The Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) app is an one stop solution to access various central and state government services in 13 Indian languages. Further one can also also the UMANG app to check and view their Employee Provid...

The digital repository already has 2,311 issuers on board and is working on having all government departments make documents available on the DigiLocker account of each citizen, people aware of the development said.

According to the EPFO FAQs regarding EPF exit date, “The EPF date of exit from a former job/employment must be updated in order to apply for an online transfer. Only two months after quitting a job can the date of departure be revised. In addition, ...

You can reset your password if your UAN has been activated. If you've forgotten your UAN password and want to reset it using your phone number, or if you want to change it without using your phone number, follow the procedures.

Here are the 17 questions and their answers for those EPF members looking to transfer their EPF accounts from their previous employers to new employers.

If an individual has multiple UANs, then it's important that the individual mergers all his/her UANs so that balances from the old EPF accounts can be transferred to the EPF account held with his/her current employer. Given below is the online proce...

Earlier, the date of leaving an organisation/job could be updated by the employer only. This used to cause many problems to an employee as, without this date updated in EPFO records, an employee could not file a withdrawal claim.

Central Government has developed e-Shram portal which will be a centralized database of unorganized workers seeded with Aadhaar. An eShram Card will be issued to workers who successfully register for the e-Shram Portal.

The Umang app is one of the routes an Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) member can take to withdraw money from their PF account.

There are a few personal finance-related developments to be aware of in December, as they will have a direct impact on one's finances.

In May 2021, the government made it mandatory for UAN to be linked with the Aadhaar number. This was done under section 142 of the Code on Social Security, 2020 through a gazette notification dated April 30, 2021.

“Considering the low Aadhaar penetration in the EPFO's administrative zone of north east region, time for mandatory seeding of Aadhaar in universal account number (UAN) for filing electronic challan cum return (ECR) is extended till 31.12.2021,” it ...

There are certain conditions that an individual must satisfy while transferring money from one EPF account to another.

As per the circular, EPF members can now correct the date of birth up to plus or minus three years instead of one year earlier. This would make the linking of Universal Account Number (UAN) with Aadhaar easier.

Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is undertaking several digital initiatives including online Universal Account Number (UAN) generation facility for subscribers and e-inspection system for employers.

At present, workers are required to apply through their employers to get the universal account number (UAN), which enables them to avoid filing PF transfer claims on changing jobs. Now they do not have to depend on his or her employer for getting th...