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Good news: Govt may soon hike minimum monthly payment to Rs 2000 under Employees Pension Scheme

The Labour Ministry has asked the EPFO to calculate the cost as well as the number of beneficiaries if the EPS pension is doubled

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Pensioners across the country will soon get a good news as the government is reportedly mulling over hiking the minimum monthly payment to Rs 2000 under the Employees Pension Scheme. 

The Labour Ministry has asked the EPFO to calculate the cost as well as the number of beneficiaries if the EPS pension is doubled, according to a report in the Economic Times. 

"EPFO will soon finalise the implications of doubling the minimum pension, following which government will move a proposal to the central board of trustees of EPFO," an offcial close to the development told the newspaper. 

If this decision would be implemented, around 4 lakh pensioners would enjoy the benefit but would cost the Centre an amount of Rs 3,000 crore annually. 

Meanwhile, retirement fund body EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund Body) has made it mandatory to file online claims for provident fund withdrawals above Rs. 10 lakh, taking another step towards becoming a paperless organisation. EPFO has also made it mandatory to file online claims for withdrawals of above Rs. 5 lakh under the Employees Pension Scheme 1995. Under the pension scheme, there is a provision of part withdrawal of pension, commonly known as commutation of pension money.

At present, EPFO subscribers have the option of filing online as well as manual claims for provident fund withdrawal as also for pension.

The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Central Provident Fund Commissioner on January 17, 2018, an official told PTI.

The official said the field offices have been directed that the claims must be accepted online in case the amount of provident fund withdrawal is above Rs. 10 lakh.

Similarly, the claims must be online in case the amount is above Rs. 5 lakh under employees' pension scheme, the official added.

The bank account of the subscriber has to be seeded and verified in the system before the online claims can be settled. Moreover, the subscriber should have been issued a universal account number or UAN and same must be activated.

The official said that all claims exceeding the said limits would not be accepted in the physical form now onwards.

EPFO has over six crore subscribers and manages a corpus of Rs. 10 lakh crore.

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