EPFO rules change 2025: EPFO (Employee Provident Fund Organisation) has given a big gift to all the employed people. EPFO has made the process of transferring PF money easier. Now it will be easier to transfer money from one company to another. Let’s know about it in detail. Along with this, we will know the benefits.
EPFO Rules Change: The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has launched the revised Form 13 software, simplifying the process of transfer of PF account to its members when changing jobs. With this change, there will be no need to take approval from the employer in most cases for the transfer of PF account.
EPFO launches revised Form 13 software
The Ministry of Labor and Employment, while sharing the information about this latest initiative in the sequence of reforms being done in EPF, said on Friday that till now two EPF offices were involved in the transfer of the amount deposited in the Provident Fund account. The first is from where the PF amount is to be transferred and the second is where this amount was to be finally deposited.
To simplify the process, EPFO has now introduced a revised Form 13 software functionality that removes the requirement of approval of all transfer claims at the PF office where the PF account is to be transferred. This means that now with the approval of account transfer from the former PF office, the previous PF account will automatically be transferred to the current Provident Fund account of the employee.
EPFO has taken special care that the details of tax-free and non-tax-free amount of the total amount deposited in PF will also be sent along with the account transfer so that TDS on the employee’s taxable PF interest can be accurately calculated.
No need for employer’s approval for account transfer
According to the Ministry of Labor, this change will benefit more than 1.25 crore members of EPF. According to the data of the ministry, every year an amount of about Rs 90,000 crore is transferred to the EPF account and this change will speed up this process as compared to before.
To ensure that the funds are credited promptly to the accounts of EPFO members, the facility of creation of UAN based on member ID and other available member information has also been introduced. For this, a software functionality has been made available to field offices through FO interface which will enable bulk creation of UAN in such cases.
Also, the EPFO application will be able to keep track of past accumulations without the need for Aadhaar. However, as a risk mitigation measure for the safety of funds deposited in PF, all such UANs will be kept in a stable state and will be activated only after Aadhaar is linked.
The ministry says that these steps will improve EPF and the complaints related to long-standing settlement claims are expected to reduce.
PF Balance Check Process
Check through missed call
- You have to give a missed call to 9966044425 from your registered mobile number.
- As soon as you make the call, your call will be disconnected. After some time a message will come on your number.
- In this message you will get PF balance and other information.
Check through message
- You can also check the balance through SMS.
- For this you have to send a message to 7738299899
- The message should be something like this, EPFOHO UAN(language code)
- You can check EPF balance in about 12 languages.
