KNOW YOUR EPF (Employees’ Provident Fund Balance)!

EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organization), which manages our EPF contribution and started lot of initiatives. All these initiatives are using latest technology to bring in transparency into the overall operations and provide excellent quality of service to its members. Some of these initiatives are knowing your EPF balance via SMS, EPF Passbook Download, UAN (Universal Account Number) and Online PF Transfer. I am going to write about all of them through by blog with details of these services and how to use them.

Today let me take you through the simple process to know your EPF balance via SMS. What do you need to avail this facility? A mobile number registered in your name, your EPF account number. That’s it, you are ready to go; no registration is required to avail this.

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The EPF Account number should be printed on your salary slip. It will something like MH/37528/111111 [<State Code>/<Establishment Code>/<Account Number>]

1. Go to http://www.epfindia.com/index.html

2. Under “For Employees” Section, click on “Know Your EPF Balance” link

3. This will take you the next page. Click on “Click here” to know your balance link

4. On the next page, from the drop down, select the state in which you PF account is registered.

5. I am selecting Maharashtra to illustrate the Process. After selecting the state, the Regional EPFO offices under that state would pop-up. You need to select the PF office in which your company is registered.  You should get this information from your HR/Payroll department if you don’t have it. I am selecting Malad (Kandivali) for our illustration as shown below.

6. Once you select the EPFO Office, comes the final screen where you need to input your Establishment code, Extension (if available) and Account Number.  As explained in the beginning the establishment code will be part of your EPF Account Number mentioned in salary slip. Extension can be left blank if not available. Input all these correctly. After that input your name as it appears in the PF slip (if you received it sometime). Input the Mobile Number. Do not put +91 prefix. Just input your 10-digit mobile number and check the check box “I Agree”. You are ready to submit now. Hit submit and within few minutes you will get a SMS on your mobile with balance details.

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Note: If you get into any trouble doing this, please feel free to drop me a note on Sudarshan@myvitaminm.com.