EPF wrong date of birth: EPFO had given the facility to change the date of birth in one of its circulars. If your date of birth is wrong in the EPF records, then there is no need to worry.
A minor mistake and your hard earned money can be stuck. This is often the case with EPF. Due to non-updating of KYC in the year 2022, there were problems in transferring interest money (EPF interest) in more than 60 lakh EPF accounts. In any such situation, you will not be able to withdraw EPF money. Therefore, it is important that the record registered in EPFO is completely correct and keep updating it from time to time.
DOB can also be changed
EPFO had given the facility to change the date of birth in one of its circulars. If your date of birth is wrong in the EPF records, then there is no need to worry. Now you can update it sitting at home. The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has shared this information with all its subscribers. Let us know how the date of birth can be updated in the EPF record.
Update DOB like this
If the difference in your date of birth is less than 3 years, then in that case you will have to submit your Aadhaar or e-Aadhaar on the EPFO Unified Member Portal. On the other hand, if the difference in your date of birth is more than 3 years, then in that case you will have to provide some separate documents along with Aadhaar or e-Aadhaar on the EPFO Unified Member Portal (UAN). Their list is given below.
These documents will be required
– Any school or education related certificate.
– Registrar Birth Certificate.
– Passport.
– Certificate based on service records of central or state government institutions.
– Reliable documents issued by any government department such as driving license, ESIC card.
– Medical certificate of the civil surgeon after examining the member.
Submit the application
The request to correct your date of birth will have to be submitted online on the EPFO Unified Member Portal. For this, you can visit this link, https://unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface/ Let us tell you that Provident Fund or PF is a big facility available to people who receive salary. 12 percent of the basic salary of the employees is deposited in the Provident Fund account every month. The same amount is also deposited in the employee’s account by the company.
E-nomination is necessary
It is important for the Employees’ Provident Fund account holder to nominate a person for his account. With this, in case of your death, the nominee of your account can easily claim the amount present in the PF account. It is important to ensure that your family members (who are usually the nominees) can easily claim your EPF corpus.
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