The money deposited in EPF remains safe. Presently 8.25 percent interest rate is being given on this. This account has been designed for retirement planning.
PF Withdraw: If you work in a company, then definitely a certain amount for EPF must be deducted from your salary account every month. Your salary and some money from the company are deposited in the Employees Provident Fund. Employees Provident Fund-EPF is a retirement plan. This account is managed by the Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO). Interest on EPF is given by the government. Interest is calculated from time to time. At present, interest rate of 8.25 percent is being given on EPF.
Although EPF has been prepared for pension after retirement, but if needed, you can withdraw money from your EPF even before retirement. Before retirement, there is pressure on any person for higher education of children, marriage of children or building a house and extra money is required for these works. In such a situation, any person first uses his deposit. EPF is also one of those deposits. You can withdraw some amount from your EPF account for purchasing land, house, children’s higher education or marriage. There are some rules for withdrawing money from EPF.
First of all, know that you can withdraw money from your EPF account only when you have completed 7 years of service. That means money should have been deposited in your EPF account for 7 consecutive years. After seven years of service, you can withdraw 50 percent of the total amount deposited in your account for children’s education from your EPF account.
If you want to withdraw money from EPF account for your or your children’s education, marriage or any other financial need, then you can do so only when you have completed 7 years of service and you have been in the EPF account for 7 consecutive years. Have been contributing. After 7 years of service, you can withdraw up to 50 percent of your contribution from EPF account.
Money for house
There are different rules for withdrawing money from EPF for buying a house, buying land, repaying home loan, repairing the house. If 5 years of your job have been completed. If you and your company have deposited money in the EPF account for 5 consecutive years, then you can withdraw money within a certain limit for buying or repairing a house.
After 3 years of continuous employment, employees can withdraw money from their EPF account to repay the home loan.
Know the balance of EPF account like this
There are many ways to find out how much money is deposited in your EPF account. You can find out the amount deposited in your account by sending a message, making a missed call or through the Umang app. For the message, you will have to send an SMS EPFO UAN to the number 77382-99899 from your registered mobile phone number. In place of UAN you will have to write your UAN number. Shortly after sending the message, you will receive a message about the total balance deposited in your account.
If you do not want to send SMS then you will have to give a missed call to 011-22901406 from your registered phone number. After making a missed call, you will get the balance message within some time. Apart from this, you can also know the EPF balance with the help of Umang App. You can also get account information by making a missed call on number 9966044425.
