The Employee Provident Fund has made changes to a facility provided to employees. Previously, the account holder had the option that if there is a mistake in their PF account. You can improve it online. For this, there was no need to go to the EPFO office and take a round and long line. PF account holders could change or improve information such as their name, father’s name and date of birth.
Now EPFO has given a blow to lakhs of employees. The organization has changed the entire process. New guidelines have also been released for this. The reason for the introduction of new rules is to prevent fraud of PF accounts of the Employees Provident Fund Organization. According to the EPF, errors in name, father’s name, husband and wife’s name, date of birth and gender could be rectified. Subscriber problems increased after the new guidelines. Now only a select few will be able to change the account holders.
Let us tell you that some cases have come up in which fake money has been extracted by changing the name and profile. In general, it is not allowed to change the entire profile. Now people will not be able to change their name under the new change. Many times, the employees get their name spelled incorrectly, which causes problems in withdrawals. Now these problems will not be rectified online.
For this, one has to go to the EPFO office by taking the necessary documents. Also, the death of birth, father-husband name, nominee name and employer name cannot be changed. For this also, the documents will have to be present in the EPFO office. Please tell us the change in surname can still be done. Women’s surname changes after marriage. For this, women have to first change the name in their Aadhaar card.
