EPFO Interest: More than 6 crore account holders of Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) can get good news soon. Before Diwali, EPFO can give a bumper gift to the account holders. Interest money can be transferred soon in the bank account of PF account holders. EPFO may soon announce interest transfer for 2020-21 in the accounts of more than 6 crore subscribers.
Significantly, the government has already given green signal to the proposal to transfer 8.5 percent interest on PF for the financial year 2020-21. The Labor Ministry has also given its consent to this decision. Now EPFO will soon deposit 8.5 percent interest in the accounts of the subscribers. According to media reports, money can be transferred in the account of employees before Diwali.
You can check balance like this
SMS
To send EPFO UAN LAN (Language) to 7738299899 from mobile number registered with EPFO. LAN stands for your language. If you want information in English, you have to write ENG instead of LAN. Similarly HIN for Hindi and TAM for Tamil. To get information in Hindi, you have to message by writing EPFOHO UAN HIN.
Missed call
If you want, you can also know your EPF balance through a missed call. For this, you have to make a missed call on 011-22901406 from your registered mobile number.
Website
To check your balance online, visit the EPF passbook portal. Log in to this portal using your UAN and password. In this, click on Download / View Passbook and then the passbook will open in front of you in which you can see the balance.
Umang app
If you have a smartphone then you can check your EPF balance whenever you want through the app. For this, open UMANG AF and click on EPFO. In this, click on Employee Centric Services and after that click on View Passbook and enter UAN and Password. OTP will come on the registered mobile number. After entering it, you can see the EPF balance.