New Delhi : PF employees are going to become rich once again, what they were waiting for will now be completed. EPFO, which deducts PF, is now going to transfer the interest money to the account soon. The EPFO has not officially announced the date, but it is being claimed in the media reports that the interest money will come in the account of the employees by June 30.
The central government has announced last month to give 8.1 percent interest to PF employees for the financial year 2021-22. At the same time, for the first time in 40 years, the Central Government had announced to give such a low interest, due to which the PF employees have definitely got a setback.
The decision to give money was taken in the meeting of the Central Board of Trustees of EPFO. At the same time, EPFO had transferred money at 8.5% interest in the financial year 2019-2020. After this, only 8.5% interest was received in the fiscal year 2020-2021, while in 2018-19, EPFO gave 8.65% interest.
In the financial year 2017-18, 8.55% interest was received. In the financial year 2016-17, 8.65% interest was received and in the financial year 2015-16, 8.8% interest was received.
For the convenience of the account holders, EPFO has shared this information from its official Twitter handle that how any account holder can check the balance of his PF account sitting at home.
How to check your PF account balance
Via missed call
Any account holder can check the balance of his PF account by making a missed call on EPFO’s helpline number 011-22901406 from his registered mobile.
Via SMS
- To check your PF account balance through SMS, first you have to send EPFO UAN LAN from your registered mobile number to 7738299899.
- Here LAN means language in which language you want to check your balance.
Check balance online like this
- Account holders can check PF account balance by visiting the official website of EPFO sitting at home. Here you have to log in through UAN number and password.
- After this you have to click on the option of ‘Passbook’ and you will be able to see the balance of your PF account on your screen.
Via UMANG App
- Any PF account holder can download the UMANG app on his smartphone and check the balance of his PF account through it also.
- You have to click on the option of ‘EPFO’ in UMANG app. After this, you will have to log in here through your UAN number and OTP.
- Here you can check the balance of your PF account by clicking on the option ‘Passbook’.
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