New Delhi:

In a written reply in Lok Sabha on Monday, Union Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Shobha Karandlaje informed the house about the steps EPFO has taken to make claim settlement more user-friendly.

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation or EPFO has taken several steps to streamline the process of claim settlement.

Here is a list of steps taken by EPFO :

The auto-mode claims are processed within three days. EPFO achieved a historic high of 2.16 crore auto-claims settlement as of 06.03.2025 during the current financial year, up from 89.52 lakh in FY 2023-24.

For auto-mode processing of advance claims, the amount limit has been enhanced to Rs 1 lakh. Further, in addition to illness or hospitalization advances, the advances for housing, education and marriage are also enabled for auto-mode processing. Now, 60% of advance claims are processed in auto mode.

Over 99.31% of claims are now received in online mode, without any requirement to visit the field office. In FY 2024-25 as of 06.03.2025, 7.14 Crore claims have been filed in online mode.

The member details correction process has been simplified, and members having Aadhaar-verified UANs can make corrections in their IDs themselves, without any EPFO interventions. At present, about 96% of corrections are being done without any EPF office intervention.

The requirement for submitting a cheque-leaf with the claim form has also been relaxed for KYC-compliant UANs meeting prescribed criteria.

In Transfer claim submission requests, the need for employer’s attestation of Aadhaar-verified UANs has been done away with. Now only 10% of transfer claims require member and employer’s attestation.

The claim settlement process is being further simplified with the Centralization of member databases under Centralized IT Enabled System (CITES 2.01).

Certain upfront validations have been developed to guide members about eligibility /admissibility of claims to ensure that members do not file ineligible claims.

EPFO has also provided de-linking facilities to the members, whose EPF accounts have been erroneously/fraudulently linked by the establishments. Since its launch on 18.01.2025, more than 55,000 members have de-linked their accounts till the end of February 2025.

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