EPFO has launched UAN registration, E-Inspection, Digi Locker facility for pensioners

Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation, EPFO has launched UAN registration, E-Inspection, Digi Locker facility for pensioners; Check the benefits To bring added benefits to employees, certain regulations of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) are going to be changed soon. The Ministry of Labor under the Central Government has issued a notification regarding the step to…

EPFO Approved a proposal to restore commutation under the Employees’ Pension Scheme

EPFO Approved a proposal to restore commutation under the Employees’ Pension Scheme

New Delhi: Providing relief to 6.3 lakh pensioners, retirement fund body EPFO has approved a proposal to restore commutation, or advance part-withdrawal, under the Employees’ Pension Scheme. The move would benefit the pensioners who had opted for commutation and got a lump sum amount at the time of retirement before 2009. The provision for commutation…

40 pension and PF trusts have a combined debt exposure of Rs 3,300 crore to DHFL

40 pension and PF trusts have a combined debt exposure of Rs 3,300 crore to DHFL

At least 40 pension and provident fund trusts, mainly from the public sector, have a combined exposure of around ₹3,300 crore to troubled Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL), one of India’s largest housing finance companies that has faced a series of credit rating downgrades. According to filings with Registrar of Companies, State Bank of India…

EPFO pushed for digitisation on the backbone of Aadhaar KYC authentication

If it wasn’t for the government announcement that brought tax benefits to the National Pension System (NPS), 2018 would have been rather lacklustre. The pension fund managers who have been waiting for over two years for fresh licences—the bid for new licences happened in September 2016—continue to be disappointed. Pension fund managers are operating on…