EPFO : Now EPFO claim can be done without check and bank passbook. Yes! Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has recently made some big changes. Under this, the organization has released this new software through which now employees will be able to do all the work related to EPFO sitting at home. In the article below, we are going to give complete information on this subject.
Employees Provident Fund Organization
Employees Provident Fund Organization, which is called EPFO in short form, is a social security organization that was established in 1952. This organization is operated under the Ministry of Labor and Employment. EPFO provides assistance in the operation of all the schemes related to provident fund, pension and insurance of employees working in the government and private sector of the country.
Employees Provident Fund Organization
It keeps changing its working system from time to time to deliver all the services issued by it through simple and modern technology.
EPFO’s new software
Recently, EPFO organization has made many big changes in its rules and working methods for the convenience of employees. For this, the organization has released a new software through which you can now do most of the work related to PF account from home. In this, you can easily do things like changing the name to transferring the account in just a few minutes. All the changes and facilities in the new update are being informed through a list below in the article.
EPFO will provide these facilities from home
You can make necessary changes in your EPFO account online from home in the name, address, gender, date of birth, parents’ name etc.
You can also change your marital status online.
If you leave your current job and join another job, then you can make this change for your PF account yourself.
You can also update the reason for leaving the job yourself.
You can now change information like Aadhaar update and nationality in the PF account yourself.
Claims will be settled quickly
Now it will not take much time to settle any kind of matter related to the Employees Provident Fund Organization. According to the new changes, in online claims where KYC has been verified by the bank and digital signatures have been done on the documents provided by the employer, the user will not be asked for a photocopy of the check or bank account passbook. But for this it is necessary that there is no deficiency in all other documents.
PF account transfer will be done without going to the office
Now EPFO members will be able to transfer their PF account without going to the office. For this, documents will have to be uploaded online with the help of new software. Along with this, the member will also be provided instant facilities of PF account PF account self transfer, e-nomination etc.
Caller code facility for EPFO officials
Many big changes have also been made for EPFO officials in the new software released by the organization. In this, the PF accounts will be automatically displayed in a color according to their status, i.e. the accounts for which online verification for any work has been completed will be displayed in green color and the accounts for which the verification process has not been completed will be displayed in red color. This will make it easier for the officer to work and will also save office time. In this way, different types of caller codes will be given for all situations.
Apart from this, many new features have been introduced by the EPFO organization, the information of which you can see on the official website of the Employees Provident Fund Organization.