Get Universal Account Number (UAN) Soon; Your EPF Money May Not Be Remitted In Its Absence

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation has confirmed a deadline of November 15 for the employers to attain the Universal Account Number (UAN) of employees before filing their electronic-challan-cum return (ECR). This is the part of the implementation of the next version of the UAN or UAN 2.0.

This in effect means that all the contributing members should have UAN, in the absence of which the employer will not be able to remit the dues in respect of these members. (PTI)

Implementation of the UAN 2.0 requires the allotment of the UAN directly and the ECR can be filed only in case of such members where the UAN has either been allotted to the member or the previous UAN has been linked to his present employment.

On 27^th October, in a communication to the field offices, Additional Central Provident Fund Commissioner has pointed out that under the existing process, the employer has to declare whether is the first-time employment of member to attain his new UAN or link the UAN or the previous members ID in case, if the new employee has a previous EPF membership. This happens only after the ECR has been submitted by the employer. The system analyzes the new Ids in the present ECR vis-a-vis the previous ECR and pushes the same to the employer portal for the declaration.

The EPFO launched the UAN program in 2014 to provide one umbrella number to the members for all the employments of an EPF member. The next version of the UAN will associate generation/linking of UAN of the members in his various employments and its combination with the next version of the ECR and Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) scheme.

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