EPFO members can self-correct personal details without employers’ intervention

“No supporting papers is required successful specified cases,” Mandaviya said. If the UAN was issued anterior to October 1, 2017, the leader tin close details of the worker without the EPFO’s approval. Requirement of supporting documents has besides been simplified for specified cases.

Only wherever UAN is not linked with Aadhaar, immoderate correction would person to beryllium submitted physically to the leader and aft verification forwarded to EPFO for approval, Mandaviya said.

UAN registration for EPFO is done by the employers for the employees astatine the clip of joining. For galore employees, mistakes were committed by employers successful signaling father/spouse name, marital status, nationality and work details during the registration process oregon later.

In bid to close these errors, the worker had to marque a petition online with supporting documents. The petition was verified by the leader and past forwarded to EPFO for approval. This process was called the associated declaration.

In FY25, retired of the 8 lakh requests that were forwarded to EPFO by employers, lone 40 per cent were sent wrong 5 days, 47 per cent were sent aft 10 days and the mean clip taken by leader was 28 days. The simplification of the updation process would supply alleviation to employees successful 45 per cent of cases by contiguous correction done Aadhaar OTP verification and successful the equilibrium 50 per cent of cases done the leader itself, the Ministry said.

If immoderate subordinate who tin self-approve has already filed his petition which is pending with the employer, the subordinate tin delete the already filed petition and self-approve arsenic per simplified process.

This volition payment astir 3.9 lakh cases pending with employers arsenic connected date, the Ministry said.

Transfer claims

Another conception of the caller installation introduced by the EPFO is astir transportation claims, that is, requests for transportation of EPF accounts astatine the clip of switching jobs. EPFO members with e-KYC accounts, that is, Aadhaar-seeded accounts, tin present record their EPF transportation claims online with Aadhaar OTP (one clip password) straight without immoderate request for involution of the employer. This is expected to trim the turnaround clip for transportation claims nether EPFO since nary support would beryllium required by the employers, Mandaviya said.

Around 27 per cent of grievances filed by EPFO members are related to subordinate profile/ KYC issues. These are expected to spot a important driblet aft the rollout of the facility, the Labour and Employment Ministry said, adding that ample employers having a immense workload of specified requests volition payment from the caller facility.

Considering the fig of specified claims filed were 1.3 crore during FY25, much than 94 per cent claims (1.2 crore) volition instantly scope EPFO, the Ministry said.

If immoderate subordinate has already filed his transportation assertion which is pending with the employer, the subordinate tin delete the already-filed petition and taxable the assertion straight with EPFO.

The simplification is besides expected to trim the subordinate grievances considerably and the consequent rejections. At present, 17 per cent of the full grievances pertain to transfer-related issues nether the EPFO.

Large employers who person a important workload of approving specified cases are expected to payment from this caller facility. The interior processes of EPFO are besides being simplified for transportation assertion processing wrong this period which volition further smoothen this process, Mandaviya said.

At present, immoderate online petition for transportation of PF relationship successful lawsuit of immoderate alteration of occupation has to beryllium verified by the leader earlier submitting to EPFO. In this process, connected an average, 12 to 13 days are taken by employers earlier the assertion reaches EPFO for verifying transfers.

During the past 9 months, astir 20 lakh claims remained pending with employers for much than 15 days. Mandaviya besides said that the Ministry is taking galore initiatives to amended transportation of services by the EPFO and aiming to bring those astatine par with the banking system.