Online PF Statements - Excellent Initiative by EPFO, India

I have been struggling to transfer my old PF account balance to the current PF account from quite some time now, I thought of earning cumulative balance on the accumulated amount by doing so. But due to lack of cooperation and support, I could not find the actual problem for this issue....

After knowing that both of my PF accounts are still not merged (even after 2.6 years from the day I quit my previous employer) I am even more worried and now eager to know the detailed PF Balance Statements to cross check, if every thing is OK. Thanks to the EPFO (India) authorities, who made it transparent and possible for every PF Member to check and download their detailed PF Statement (with up-to-date balances) - Online with a simple process.

I have explored this a couple of weeks back and enjoyed this option very much and would like to share the process to download the PF Statements to all my blog visitors. Below mentioned detailed process would certainly help everyone in understanding about this facility:

PF Balance Information on your mobile is not up to date (not the latest update)!

Please read the below article (Important Information)from The Hindu - Business Line

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 14:

You can simply forget the rigour and pain involved in knowing your Provident Fund (PF) balance. After piloting the IT-based solution at three offices in two months, the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has now expanded the facility to 75 (114 PF offices, as of 19th September 2011) PF offices, covering 35 States and Union Territories.

Considered to be a labyrinthine and difficult task, knowing your PF account has suddenly become an easy thing — as easy as sending an SMS. One has to go to the EPFO's home page, select the State where one's account is maintained and fill in just three parameters — account number, name (as in the PF account) and mobile number — and press ‘enter'. For the Complete Details Click Here

The online request hits the EPFO server, looks for the matching information asked for and the balance information pops up in a few minutes. In most cases, data updated is as of September 8, 2011. It, however, doesn't mean that one will get balance figure till such date. The actual data would be up to March 31, 2010.

The EPFO is in the process of adding information to the online treasure trove to give more people access to their accounts.

Latest EPF Balance - Employees' Provident Fund Balance online / on your mobile

Much awaited tool to know your EPF Balance has been launched by Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (A Statutory Body Under Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India) on 1st July 2011.

This tool is not full fledged application to manage entire EPF portfolio online.But, it will send an SMS to your mobile with last updated EPF information on given mobile no, upon providing required input. This tool is available only for 41 offices as of 11th September 2011. All other EPFO offices will also be added soon.

Process to know your EPF Balance:
1) Go to http://www.epfindia.com/MembBal.html ( http://www.epfindia.com/ )
2) Select your EPFO Office where PF account is maintained.
3) Enter your PF Account Number – Don’t enter Extension (4th field) unless your PF Account has this field. Under Employee PF Account Number* : first two fields are State & City followed by Establishment code - Maximum 7 Digits (3rd), Extension - Maximum 3 Characters / Can be left blank in case of no extension (4th) and Account Number - Maximum 7 Digits (5th) fields respectively.

This Project is really Well Executed by the so called Application Service Provider - Good Job.

4) Enter your Mobile and Name, Accept Terms and condition and Submit.
5) You will receive an SMS with the Balance Details from EPFO as:-
"EPF Balance in A/C No. AP/HYD/XXXXX/XXXX is EE Amt:Rs XXXXX, ER Amt: Rs. XXXXX as on 09-09-11 (Account updated upto 31-03-2010)-EPFO"

EE = Employee Contribution and ER = Employer Contribution on date mentioned in your SMS. It does not show current balance of PF Account as on Today.

If you get error while opening "know your EPF balance" page then please try again after sometime.It shows error sometimes, due to server busy /link failure / some other problem.

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