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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.
The provisions of online filing of returns in the prescribed proforma shall also be applicable to establishment which have been granted exemption by an order of the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner for individual employees under the provisions of Paragraph 27 of the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme, 1952.
A facility has been provided to the members to merge their earlier PF Accounts to the current PF account so that EPFO may help them in the integration of all these PF accounts in the Current UAN activated PF account.
As per the provisions laid down, pensioners under Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 are required to submit Life Certificate annually in the month of November each year. From 2016 facility has been provided for submission of Jeevan Parmaan digitally as authentication for proof of identity of the individual pensioners. In order to obviate the difficulties faced […]
It has been seen that many EPF members are facing problem in seeding Aadhaar with their UAN as there is mismatch in Name, DOB or Gender between Aadhaar data and UAN data. Presently member and employer are required to give joint request to concerned EPFO field office for correction in basic details.
Currently, if employee wants to correct his/her basic details against UAN, employee and employer are required to submit a joint request to the concerned EPFO field office for correction of above mentioned basic details of employee.
As you are aware that UAN is mandatory for filing the member contribution. Currently UAN can be generated by Employer only and the same to be generated before ECR filing of that member. Establishments with large number of new joiners every month, are facing problem in generation of UAN due to mismatch of input data with Aadhaar.
