EPFO-UAN KYC Update: More than 7.6 crore members of EPFO can now make changes in personal information like name and date of birth online even without employer verification or EPFO approval. This facility started from Saturday 18 January 2025. Additionally, Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) members with e-KYC EPF account (linked to Aadhaar) can directly file their EPF transfer claims online with Aadhaar OTP (One Time Password) without employer intervention.
Launching these two new services of EPFO, Union Labor and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, about 27 percent of the complaints filed by EPFO members are related to member profile/KYC issues and after the launch of this facility, these complaints have increased significantly. There will be a decline. He said that requests for amendment in personal details of employees will also benefit large employers with huge workforce.
The Labor Minister said that EPFO has simplified the process of joint declaration on the EPFO portal. This enables employees to self-correct common errors in personal information such as name, date of birth, gender, nationality, father’s/mother’s name, marital status, spouse’s name, date of joining and leaving the work organization. Has been.
For this, there is no need for any verification by the employer or approval by EPFO. In such cases, no supporting documents are required.
This facility will be available to those members whose UAN (Universal Account Number) was issued after October 1, 2017 (when matching with Aadhaar became mandatory).
In case the UAN is issued before October 1, 2017, the employer can correct the details even without the approval of EPFO. The requirement of supporting documents for such cases has also been simplified. He said that only in cases where UAN has not been linked to Aadhaar, any correction will have to be physically submitted to the employer and after verification, sent to EPFO for approval.
UAN registration is done initially by the employer for the employee. For many employees, mistakes were made by employers in entering father/spouse’s name, marital status, nationality and service details during or after the registration process.
To correct these errors the employee had to submit an online request along with supporting documents. This request had to be verified by the employer and also sent to EPFO for approval. This process was called joint declaration.
Out of eight lakh requests sent by employers to EPFO in the financial year 2024-25, it was seen that only 40 percent requests were sent within five days while 47 percent requests were sent after 10 days. In this, the average time taken by the employer was 28 days. With this simplification, in 45 percent of the cases, employees will be able to make immediate corrections in personal information through Aadhaar OTP verification. In the remaining 50 percent cases, rectification will be done through the employer.
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