PF Interest Deposit: On Monday, EPFO said through a tweet that for the financial year 2020-21, interest has been transferred at the rate of 8.50 percent annually to 21.38 crore accounts. Must have come in your PF account as well.
The Government of India has transferred the interest of PF for the financial year 2020-21 to the account of the account holders. The Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) said that interest money has been transferred to a total of 21.38 crore accounts.
PF Interest Deposit: On Monday, EPFO said through a tweet that for the financial year 2020-21, interest has been transferred at the rate of 8.50 percent annually to 21.38 crore accounts. Your PF account will also have arrived, if you have not received the SMS yet, then you can easily check it sitting at home.
21.38 crore accounts have been credited with an interest of 8.50% for the FY 2020-21. @LabourMinistry @esichq @PIB_India @byadavbjp @Rameswar_Teli
— EPFO (@socialepfo) November 29, 2021
This time EPFO has given 8.5 percent interest on PF amount. You can check by sitting at home how much interest you have received. You can know PF interest only with the help of registered mobile number linked with PF account.
Know PF amount through message
You can also check PF balance through SMS. For this EPFO has issued the number. For this, SMS has to be sent from the registered mobile number to 7738299899. As soon as you SMS, EPFO will send you your PF contribution and balance information.
The way to send SMS is also very easy. For this, you have to send ‘EPFOHO UAN’ to 7738299899. This facility is available in 10 languages English, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali. For this information, it is necessary to have your UAN, PAN and Aadhaar linked.
Know PF amount by missed call
Now you can know all the details of your PF account on just one missed call. EPFO has issued this (011-22901406) number. You just have to give a missed call on it from your registered mobile number. As soon as you make a call on this number, after a few seconds of ringing, the phone will be disconnected and then the complete information about the account will be reached through the message.
If you want to send the message in English then you have to write EPFOHO UAN ENG. The last three words (ENG) mean language. If you put these three words, then you will get the information of balance in English. If you enter the code of Hindi (HIN), then you will get the information in Hindi. Keep in mind that instead of UAN, you do not have to enter your UAN number. Leave it by just typing UAN.
PF amount will also be known from UMANG app
Apart from this, you can also check the amount deposited in PF account through UMANG app. For this, go to the EPFO section present on the UMANG app. Click on Employee Centric Service. Select View Passbook and login with UAN to view passbook. Also you can contact on toll free number 1800-118-005.
According to the rules of EPFO, through phone call or message, the same consumer will get information, whose UAN will be active. Along with this, if your UAN is linked to any of your bank accounts, Aadhar and PAN, then you can take your last contribution and all the details of the account.