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It is informed that Aadhaar No. would not be mandatory for International Workers as well as workers from Nepal and Bhutan. Further, submission of Aadhaar will be optional upto 30th September 2017 for those members who already have UAN prior to 1st July 2017 and has to go for re-registration.
It is stated that the PMRPY Scheme was intended to target semi-skilled and unskilled workers and would be applicable to those workers whose wage/salary was up to Rs. 15000/-per month.
As you are aware, in the e-court software the allotment of 7A & 14B cases among assessing authorities is automatic so as to ensure that the workload is spread uniformly and cases are allotted randomly.
As you are aware, new Facility to apply for Transfer has been launched in the Member Interface and Employer Interface under Unified Portal with effect from 27th May 2017 replacing the functionality of the erstwhile OTCP Portal.
In accordance with the cited instructions, there are many establishments which have employees working at different locations and branches but the payment of PF dues of all the workers is made under a single PF code number. However there were demands to give a facility for field offices to monitor compliance in their inspection area or information driven scrutiny of compliance.
It has been observed that all the exempted establishments have not filed the prescribed returns till In this regard, it is directed that all the RPFC/Officer In charges of the field offices shall ensure due filing of prescribed returns by 25.07.2017
A new facility has been launched in employee’s Member Interface of Unified Portal for the employees/members to submit Online Claims based on Composite Claim Form (Aadhar) for availing the benefits under EPF (Form-19), Pension (Form-10C) & PF Part Withdrawals (Form-31).
ollections of EPF dues have been started with PNB, Allahabad Bank, Indian Bank, Union Bank of India in addition to State Bank of India through direct online mode.
The different application forms for Certificate of Coverage (COC) in respect of Indian Worker (having Indian Passport) going to work in a country with which India is having Social Security Agreement (SSA) has been revised into a single form keeping in view the new COC application software being developed by IS division.
Several references have been received from the field offices that cases where two years weightage was given where the past service comes out to 20 years, the new application software while generating the worksheet has reduced the past service benefits in comparison to that calculated in legacy software. The matter has been examined and the following clarification is issued.
