PF Withdrawal Procedure - Know The Online Process

The EPF (Employee Provident Fund), which is commonly known as the PF is a savings scheme developed by the EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation) under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Initially it was introduced only for the workers in the factory and other industrial labourers, however, it was later extended to all the salaried employees.The main purpose of the introducing the EPF was to allow the employee to make a voluntary contribution to their retirement fund and use the accumulated fund post-retirement. It allows the employee to have a regular source of income after retirement and be financially independent. Since the PF is a retirement scheme, the funds must ideally be withdrawn at that time. However, the EPFO allows the employees to withdraw PF amount before retirement.If you want to withdraw pf , you must adhere to certain withdraw pf process . Typically, most people opt out of the PF when they switch jobs and do not want their PF account to be transferred to the new employer. Let us look at the ways by which you can withdraw pf online

If you want to withdraw funds from your PF account before retirement, you must submit a Form 19. You can get this form from your employer or you can also download it from the EPFI website. Once you have submitted the withdrawal application to the EPF office, the PF amount along with the interest earned over the years, you can expect to receive the funds within 90 days of submitting the application.

If you have your UAN, you can apply for the PF withdrawal without getting and approval from your employer; the EPF office will process your application directly. However, you must know that most employers do not share the UAN number with the employees until their actively employed with them and in the absence of UAN, you can avail this option.

If you are unsure how to withdraw pf with having the UAN, you can get the PF withdrawal from the EPFI website and submit the directly to the regional PFO (Provident Fund Office). You must know this procedure requires attestation of identify proof as the PFO would want to ensure that the right person is applying for the withdrawal.Hence you get the proof of identity documents attested by any of the following mandated authorities only:

• A bank manager
• A gazetted officer
• President of village panchayat
• Magistrate
• Sub Post Master

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