Universal account number News

Your UAN is a unique 12-digit number that ensures you keep receiving your EPFO benefits no matter how many jobs you switch.

Members have already started filing their requests using this new facility out of which around 40,000 are already approved by the field offices of EPFO. 

Gender-wise analysis of payroll data unveiled that out of 8.08 lakh new members, around 2.05 lakh are new female members.

A minimum of 12% of an employee's base salary and performance wages must be deducted as provident fund contributions, with the employer contributing another 12%. Using your activated Universal Account Number, you will be able to check your PF balance on the EPFO portal provided by the government (UAN). Members of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation, or EPFO, can check their PF balance by dialling 011-22901406 and leaving a message.

UAN is a 12-digit number that is provided to employees registered with EPFO You anytime can create a UAN account for yourself You can generate your UAN account only if your employer is registered with EPFO

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The Labour Ministry is actively considering proposal of a voluntary pension scheme mooted by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), a senior government official has said.

Retirement fund body EPFO has introduced a simplified Universal Account Number based form, 10-D, for its subscribers for fixing their pension without employers' attestation.

Retirement fund body EPFO has relaxed the provision that requires furnishing of Universal Account Number (UAN) for settlement of claims like PF withdrawal for all those who left membership before January 1, 2014.

You will have to follow very simple procedures so that you don't have to run around your previous company for withdrawal of provident fund.

The NDA Government is bringing in different initiatives like Universal Account Number (UAN), skill development, among others, for the benefit of workers, the Minister maintained.

Retirement fund body EPFO today notified an order to make Universal Account Number (UAN) mandatory for all employers covered under the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1952.

Retirement fund body EPFO settled 10.53 lakh claims like PF withdrawals in May, of which 86 percent were disposed of within 10 days of receipt of application.

The government is considering a proposal to make it mandatory to have Universal (portable PF) Account Number (UAN) for availing of benefits of schemes run by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).

The Employees` Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has introduced an online helpdesk to help members trace out and settle "inoperative accounts", the labour ministry said Thursday.

Retirement fund manager EPFO that has initiated the process of seeding KYC details like PAN, Aadhaar of contributing members for making Universal Account Number (UAN) has set a target of seeding 2 crore bank account data by end of this month, an official said.

Initiating the process of providing portable Universal Account Numbers to members, retirement fund body EPFO today issued 4.17 crore UANs to firms for seeding them with workers' KYCs like Aadhaar and bank account number.

Retirement fund body EPFO has decided to work in mission mode to provide portable Universal Account Number to contributing members initially and seed it with KYCs like Aadhaar and PAN to make it more secure.