The move will help higher-income group workers to get higher pensions and is aimed at making the pension fund of the EPFO, which is in deficit, more sustainable
Retirement fund body EPFO on Friday said it has settled 4.6 million EPF withdrawal claims and disbursed Rs 920 crore to its subscribers to meet exigencies due to the Covid-19 situation
The net new enrolments with the EPFO hover around 700,000 every month on an average
The Union Labour and Employment Ministry said in a statement that the EPFO received 1.1 million claims between April and July 2020 through the UMANG mobile application
To support employers for availing benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna (PMGKY), a special WhatsApp service has been provided for immediate education and assistance
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Employee Provident Fund data shows a sharp fall in new additions to subscriptions to the Fund in April 2020, the first complete month of the lockdown
Provisional payroll data released by the EPFO last month showed that net new enrolments stood at 133,000 in April this year
Govt will invest Rs 12,750 crore in recapitalising the three state-owned insurance companies- Oriental Insurance, National Insurance and United India Insurance
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced the extension of the benefit in May this year under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana
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The 8.5 per cent interest rate, which was declared in March this year is yet to be approved by the Finance Ministry
The government had imposed lockdown from March 25 to fight Covid-19 in the country.
Since April 1, EPFO has been settling claims for withdrawal of special Covid-19-related advances within three days. It has settled over 80,000 claims amounting to Rs 270 cr on daily basis since April
The facility will bring a paradigm shift by allowing EPFO offices to settle online claims from any of its regional office across the country, the labour ministry said in a statement.
The Covid-19 advance has been a great help to EPFO members during these difficult times, especially for the members with monthly wages of less than Rs 15,000
Though more firms were switching to formal sector and paying workers regular wages, that didn't necessarily mean they were passing on social security benefits to them
The NSO report is based on the payroll data of new subscribers of various social security schemes run by ESIC, retirement fund body EPFO and pension fund regulator PFRDA.
The data also showed that during September 2017-March 2020 period, the number of net new subscribers was around 1.55 crore