EPFO Issues New Guidelines For Employees’ PF Accounts

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has introduced a new rule regarding employees’ PF accounts. The EPFO issued a new standard operating procedure guideline for correcting or changing account details.

To this extent, the NOP has adopted version 3.0. With this, the company said that the relevant documents must be submitted to update the details in the UAN profile.

The basic profile parameters included in the UAN profile are: name, gender, date of birth, father’s name, mother’s name, spouse’s name, marital status, date of joining, reason for leaving, date of leaving, nationality, and Aadhaar cad number as well.

The new notification has divided the profile changes into major and minor categories. The EPFO circular said that documentary proof must support all major and minor change correction requests.

At least two required key documents must be given along with the joint declaration requests for the minor changes. At least three required documents have to be submitted for major changes.

The EPF member can also submit a joint declaration request for correction via the Member e-Sewa portal. Notably, a member can only get data corrected for those EPF accounts maintained by the present employer.