Personal Finance
Under EPFO’s new rule, it is mandatory for all to link their PF accounts with their Aadhaar cards at the earliest to avoid any loss.
Updated : Dec 01, 2021, 04:38 PM IST | Edited by : Vaishnawi Sinha
If you are an employed individual who holds an account with the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), then you must know that it is mandatory now to link your Aadhaar with your existing Provident Fund (PF) account at the earliest.
Each person holding a PF account has a Universal Account Number (UAN) of the account where their monthly PF amount is transferred. If you have not linked your PF account with Aadhaar, then the monthly PF transfer can face a major delay.
In its latest notice, EPFO said, “In partial modification of the Circular No. WSU/15(1)2019/ATR/529 dated 15.06.2021 under reference, it is informed that the date of completing the seeding and verification of Aadhaar with UAN, is hereby extended till 30.11.2021, and accordingly, the date in Para 1 of the referred Circular dated 15.06.2021 mentioned as 01.09.2021 may be read as 01.12.2021.”
Before this, the last date to do so was November 15. If you still haven’t linked your EPFO account with your Aadhaar, then you can follow the steps mentioned and do so in any of the three ways.