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PF account status just a missed call away
PF account status just a missed call away.The Centre will shortly introduce a toll-free number for the benefit of EPF account holders. This was announced by Union Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya at a press conference here on Sunday.
Centre to introduce a toll-free number to benefit PF account holders
Hyderabad: The Centre will shortly introduce a toll-free number for the benefit of EPF account holders. This was announced by Union Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya at a press conference here on Sunday. Members holding Universal Account Numbers (UAN) can give a missed call to this number and get an SMS instantly, which gives the details of their balance in their PF account.
The Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has do far issued UAN to 4.35 crore PF account holders and about 44 lakh of them have activated their UAN. Currently, all UAN-activated members get SS every month on deposits of their monthly contributions by their respective employers. The Union Minister appealed to all PF account holders to activate their UAN and get all previous PF accounts transferred to their present PF account to avail this facility.
The UAN comes with another benefit. It will ensure members interest of an inoperative account, if it is not merged with the present account. The interest will be lost otherwise. According to Dattatreya, the EPFO is putting technology to update annual accounts of about 14 crore members for the year 2014-15 in the first week of April itself.
The EPFO is depositing around 50 lakh pensions on the first working day of the month through technology all over the country. The Labour Ministry is also working to extend social security benefits available to the organised sector to the workers of unorganised sector, he said.
