EPFO is transferring 8.5% interest to PF accounts, here's how to check your balance

Before Diwali, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO ​)​is transferring the interest of Provident Fund to the PF accounts of the subscribers. If you want to withdraw your PF money before the festival, then this news is for you. Notably, now at the time of a medical emergency, PF money comes into your bank account within an hour.

If you want to withdraw money in advance from your FPFO account, then follow this process.

• First of all, go to www.epfindia.gov.in website and click on Online Advance Claim.
• You can also do this by logging in to unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface/.
• Go to Online Service and click on Claim (Form-31,19,10C & 10D).
• Enter and verify the last 4 digits of your bank account
• Click on Proceed for Online Claim
• Select PF Advance from the drop-down (Form 31)
• Choose your reason. Enter the amount to be transferred and upload the scanned copy of the cheque.
• Click on Get Aadhaar OTP and type OTP received on Aadhaar linked mobile.
• In this way, your claim will be filed. PF claim money will come into your account in one hour.

EPFO has started depositing the interest for the financial year 2020-21 in the account of PF account holders. Money has started arriving in about 6.5 crore PF accounts of the country. In such a situation, all the account holders are checking their PF account to see how much money came into their account. It is worth noting that the government had already given green signal to the proposal to transfer 8.5 percent interest on PF for the financial year 2020-21. The Laboor Ministry had also given its consent to this decision. Now EPFO ​​is depositing 8.5 per cent interest in the accounts of the subscribers.

You do not need to worry to check interest money in EPFO. There are several ways to check whether the interest amount has been credited to your account. Information about the transfer of interest from EPFO ​​​​is given to every subscriber through SMS. But, you can easily get the balance information in the account by sending a message yourself. You just have to type 'EPFOHO UAN ENG' on your mobile phone and send it to 7738299899. The last three characters of the message are for the language.

If you want to take your account information in Hindi, then you can send it by writing 'EPFOHO UAN HIN'. But account holders have to keep in mind that this message has to be sent from the registered mobile number only. Apart from this, you can also get information from your registered mobile number by giving a missed call on 011-22901406. After this, you will get a message from EPFO ​​in which you will get the details of your PF account.