The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Sunday announced a sweeping revision to the PF portal in India. According to EPFO, members with UAN (Universal Account Number) validated through Aadhaar can now update particulars in their profile, such as name, date of birth, gender, nationality, father’s or mother’s name, marital status, spouse name, date of joining, and date of leaving themselves—all, without uploading any document.
“Only, in certain cases where UAN was obtained prior to 1-10-2017 (October 10, 2017), the updation would require certification of employer only,” the EPFO stated.
The latest revision is in line with the provident fund body organising the member database “to ensure that the services are provided seamlessly and to avoid the risk of erroneous or fraudulent payment from the fund.”
“The process for member profile updation has been simplified, empowering employees to make corrections themselves,” said union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
Before this, requests by members to change or correct their details had to be endorsed online by the employer (or former employer) and forwarded to EPFO for final approval.
Citing that 45 per cent of the 8 lakh requests for correction received in FY2024-2025 could be “self-approved by the member without employer’s verification or approval at EPFO”, the government agency said that the new move would “eliminate a delay of nearly 28 days taken by employer to approve Joint Declarations (JDs).”
The EPFO expects the revision to benefit about 3.9 lakh members with pending requests. The body said that the member can delete an already filed request and self-approve with the new system.
EPFO announces new simplified PF transfer application process
The government body also announced that it simplified the process of transferring the PF account during a job change or transfer. In the “majority of cases”, members would no longer have to file PF transfer claims through previous or current employers, it announced.
“With the introduction of the revised process, it is expected that in future over 1.20 crore out of 1.30 crore total transfer claims,” stated the EPFO, “94 per cent of the total claims would be directly forwarded to EPFO without requiring the employer’s intervention.”
