Today PF shareholders do not forget to check their PF account as today on 31 December, EPFO can transfer interest money to PF account. The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) will deposit a lump-sum of 8.5 percent interest in the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) accounts of about six crore shareholders for the financial year 2019-20 till tomorrow, December 31. A highly placed source said that the Labor Ministry has sent a proposal to the Finance Ministry to add 8.5 percent interest at a time to the EPF for 2019-20. This proposal has been sent for this month. The source said that the finance ministry’s approval on this proposal is expected in a few days. In such a case, interest will be credited to the accounts of shareholders this month.
Earlier in September, at a meeting of trustees led by Labor Minister Santosh Gangwar, EPFO decided to put the interest in two installments of 8.15 percent and 0.35 percent.
You can check check balance through SMS
- If your UAN number is registered with EPFO, then information about the balance of your PF will be received through the message. For this, you need to send EPFOHO UAN ENG (the last three letters are for the language.) To 7738299899. Your PF information will be received through the message.
- If you want information in Hindi language then you have to send EPFOHO UAN HIN. This service of knowing PF balance is available in English, Punjabi, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali. For PF balance it is necessary that your UAN is linked to bank account, PAN and Aadhaar (AADHAR).
- You can check the balance on your passbook on EPFO website. To view the passbook, it is necessary to have a UN number.
Know balance through missed call – give a missed call from your registered mobile number on 011-22901406. After this, PF details will be received through the message of EPFO. It is also necessary to have your UAN, PAN and Aadhaar link here .
Also Read: EPFO: Government’s gift just before the new year, 8.5% interest on PF
You can check online such PF balance
1 Log on EPFO website. Click on e-passbook at epfindia.gov.in
2 On clicking e-passbook, a new page will come to passbook.epfindia.gov.in.
3 Here you have to fill your username (UAN number), password and captcha.
4 After filling all the details, they will come to a new page and member ID has to be selected here.
5 Here you will get your EPF balance on e-passbook.
You can also check the balance
On the Umang app – open our Umang app (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) and click on EPFO.
– On another page you have to click on employee-centric services.
– Click on View Passbook here. Fill in your UAN number and password (OTP) number. OTP will come to your registered mobile number. After this you can check your PF balance.
What Happens UAN Number – EPFO provides Universal Account Number (UAN) service through which account holders can see their PF account balance. This number is like a bank account.
