For the last few days, the members of the Employees’ Provident Fund have been waiting for the interest amount to come into their account. The Central Board of Trustees, the apex decision making body of the PFO, had approved the interest rate of 8.25 percent for FY24 in February.
New Delhi: Members of the Employees’ Provident Fund have been waiting for a long time for the interest money to come into their account. If you are also included in the list of such members, then there is big news for you. A big update has come from the EPFO on this. The Central Board of Trustees, the highest decision-making body of the PFO, approved an interest rate of 8.25 percent for FY 24 in February. However, a formal notification by the Finance Ministry is still awaited on this. According to reports, there has been a delay in this due to the Lok Sabha elections in the country. Now this work is likely to be completed by July. Interest money can be sent to the accounts of PF account holders by the month of July. You can check online from home whether the interest money has come to your account or not. For this, you do not need to run anywhere. You can get information about the money deposited in your account and interest in many ways. Let us tell you.
How to find out if money has arrived or not
You can check whether your EPF interest money has arrived or not from your passbook. If you check your passbook daily, you will come to know about it. You can check your passbook through SMS, missed call and EPFO portal. You do not need to run around anywhere. If your mobile number is registered with the EPF account, you can avail the missed call service. To check your balance through missed call, you have to make a missed call to 011-22901406. After this, you will know your balance through SMS.
Check your balance like this
You can also check your balance through SMS. For this, you have to SMS EPFOHO UAN ENG (or write the code of the language in which you want the message in place of ENG) to 7738299899. For this, all your important documents should be linked to UAN. Only then will you be able to take advantage of this facility. You can also check your passbook through the EPFO portal. For this, your UAN should be activated.
