There are many difficulties in submitting applications through the EPFO portal. Even before the June 26 last date for submission of combined options, applicants and employers are facing several technical glitches.
Only 3 days are left for the June 26 deadline to submit the joint option for higher pension. Even before the last date, applicants and employers are facing many technical glitches. There are many problems in submitting applications through the EPFO portal.
According to TOI, many employers have petitioned the PF fund manager to extend the last date and simplify the application process. Despite warnings from the EPFO’s Central Board of Trustees as well as employers’ organisations, the problems persist.
What problems are coming
Apart from unforeseen technical errors at the application and approval stage, concerns still remain about the inability of the Universal Account Number (UAN) to retrieve the complete service record of an employee to be considered for higher pension. Despite complaints on EPFO’s email id, there is no response to the employer’s and employee’s feedback
HR experts also pointed out that while employers and employees were allowed to edit or update employee data on the EPFO portal, such correction is now possible only through the EPFO. Data updation through EPFO not only takes more than two months but also slows down the process. This also increases the workload on the fund manager. Additionally, the process is riddled with inconsistent practices in the Regional PF Offices.
This means that applications for higher pension cannot be filed without updating the EPFO database, which experts say can be easily rectified by co-ordinating the higher pension portal with existing pensioners’/employers’ portals. Could
This is also a big concern
Another major concern in the application process from the employer side is the refusal by the EPFO to link the pre-September 2014 employment with the employee’s current UAN if the new employment after September 2014 is above the actual basic pay of Rs 15,000. Has been done.
The Pension Fund Manager has also failed to address the problem of non-availability of complete salary data (more than seven years) with the employers and has not included any provision which would provide the employees with the final or latest data for the old period. gives an opportunity to use.
