Provident Fund Body Extends Deadline To Apply For Higher Pension Till June 26

New Delhi:

Retirement fund physique EPFO has prolonged the date for submitting purposes to go for a better pension until June 26, 2023.

As a way to present a bigger window of alternative and with the intention to allow all eligible individuals to file their purposes, the timeline for submitting purposes would now be until twenty sixth June, 2023, in keeping with a press release.

“The EPFO (Staff’ Provident Fund Organisation) has made preparations for acquiring purposes for validation of choice/joint choice from pensioners/members as per the Supreme Court docket order on November 4, 2022,” labour ministry stated in a press release.

To facilitate this course of, on-line facility has been made accessible.

Greater than 12 lakh purposes have been acquired until date.

The net facility was to stay accessible solely until Might 3, 2023.

Within the meantime, many representations have been acquired from varied quarters looking for extension of time.

The difficulty has been thought of and it has been determined that with the intention to present a bigger window of alternative and with the intention to allow all eligible individuals to file their purposes, the timeline for submitting purposes would now be until twenty sixth June, 2023, it said.

The timeline is being prolonged to facilitate and supply ample alternative to the pensioners/members in order to to ease out any issue being confronted by them.

This has been determined after sympathetically contemplating the assorted calls for acquired from workers, employers and their associations, it said.

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