More than 7.4 crore subscribers of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will now be able to self-correct common errors in personal details such as name, date of birth, gender, nationality, father/mother’s name, marital status, spouse name, date of joining and date of leaving, without any verification by employer or approval by the EPFO.
Union Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launched the new EPFO facility on Saturday through which subscribers will be able to self-correct most details if their Universal Account Number (UAN) was issued after October 1, 2017 when Aadhaar matching was made mandatory.
No supporting document is required in such cases,” Mandaviya said. If the UAN was issued prior to October 1, 2017, the employer can correct details of the employee without the EPFO’s approval. Requirement of supporting documents has also been simplified for such cases.
Only where UAN is not linked with Aadhaar, any correction would have to be submitted physically to the employer and after verification forwarded to EPFO for approval, Mandaviya said.
