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In this regard, a letter is being issued to all General Manager of Indian Railways (all Zones), Kolkata Metro Corporation, Director General, RDSO and Chairman & Managing Director, IRCTC for ensuring compliance in respect of contract workers being Principal Employers.
Following steps are to be followed to digitize physical Form No. 9:- 1) Scanning of physical Form No. 9 and upload the same in the system 2) Approval of scanned copy of Form No. 9 3) Approval of member data available in the system 4) Archiving the scanned Form-9 duly indexed for reference.
A partial withdrawal of accumulated pension wealth of the subscriber, not exceeding twenty-five per cent. of the contributions made by the subscriber and excluding contributions made by employer, if any, at any time before exit from National Pension System subject to the terms and conditions, purpose, frequency and limits specified below:-
At the time of registration of an establishment, employer has to upload digitally signed copy of PAN card. There is a mandate of Ease of Doing business to eliminate the requirement of submitting scanned copy of PAN card at the time of registration.
Real Time Default Management System is in operation in EPFO for reducing current default of establishments. New Enforcement Officers are also being provided to Regional Offices after completion of their training for effective default reduction.
Currently UAN (Universal Account Number) has become mandatory for every employee and UAN remains portable throughout the lifetime of an employee and they don’t have to apply for PF transfer claims at changing jobs, because merely providing your UAN number to your new employer shall be sufficient so the employees starting their career afresh have the benefit of UAN which was launched in 2015.
It is hereby clarified that Part -E shall contain the information related to the actual investments and other receipts/payments made in the wage month with which the online return For example in monthly return of March 2017, Part – E will contain the actual contribution receipts, payments and details of the investments made between 01 March 2017 and 31 March 2017.
It has been decided that irrespective of the amount, the EPF claimant should submit cancelled cheque in original (containing claimant’s name, bank account number & IFS Code of the bank branch printed on it) with all type of claims.
It was decided to follow the following process for change of date of birth of members of Employees’ Pension Scheme 1995-(i) In case the correction required in date of birth is upto plus or minus one year, Aadhaar will be accepted as a valid document for date of birth.
It has come to the notice that some of the field offices have not yet completed the task of Compliance Audit of the Exempted/ Relaxed Establishments falling under their territorial jurisdiction by a special drive. Therefore, it is again reiterated to complete this exercise by 31st December, 2017 positively and report to Head Office by e-mail in the format annexed herewith by 08.01.18 through Addl. CPFC of the concerned zone.
