Aadhaar, EPFO link by March 17

Retirement fund body EPFO will launch a host of Aadhaar-linked online services such as PF withdrawal and pension fixation for its 4 crore subscribers by the end of this fiscal.

“The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will soon launch a host of Aadhar-linked services like PF withdrawals and pension fixation for its subscribers to facilitate such faster transactions for their benefit,” EPFO central provident fund commissioner V.P. Joy said at a conference on social security organised by PHDCCI here.

Joy pointed out that at present, 1.5 crore EPFO subscribers’ EPF accounts are seeded with Aadhar and the challenge for the organisation is to equip the remaining 2.5 crore subscribers with this facilities for which all-out efforts are being made so that it (online service) becomes effective by March 31, 2017.

Another senior EPFO official said the EPFO is likely to complete the work to operationalise central data server for its over 120 regional offices in the next two month.

He further said that once the central data server is operational, the EPFO would start testing for providing services like online withdrawal and pension fixation.

EPFO has already provided facility for online transfer of PF accounts on changing jobs to its subscribers.