Important news for employees, EPFO ​​tweeted this, have to be alert, know updates

Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) is a retirement plan managed by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation. In the EPF scheme, the employee and his company contribute an equal amount every month.

EPFO Alert: Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has alerted its 6.5 crore employed people and employees. EPFO has been vigilant to protect its members from frauds. This alert has been issued in the last few days after several frauds in the name of EPFO ​​came to the fore. For this, it is not necessary that you are a government employee or work in a private company.

In fact, currently EPFO ​​has 6.5 crore members. Under this, PF is deducted every month, for the employees whose PF is deducted, an alert has been issued by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO). In which it has been said that EPFO ​​never asks for personal information like PAN, Aadhaar, UAN, bank account and OPT from its members through phone, social media, WhatsApp etc. Do not answer any call or WhatsApp call. .

What is EPFO’s tweet- EPFO ​​has tweeted that EPFO ​​never asks its members to share personal details like Aadhaar, PAN, UAN, bank account or OTP on phone or social media. Apart from this, EPFO ​​never asks to deposit any amount through WhatsApp, social media etc. for any service. Never answer these type of calls or SMS.

Know what is EPF- Tell that Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is a retirement plan, which is managed by Employees Provident Fund Organization. In the EPF scheme, the employee and his company contribute an equal amount every month. It is 12 percent of the basic salary of the employee, the government has fixed an interest rate of 8.1 percent on the amount deposited in EPF for this financial year.