The government is considering a significant increase in the provident fund wage ceiling. Current limits may rise to ₹25,000 or ₹30,000 mont...

The Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana has provided incentives to over 440,000 new employees. The government has disbursed ₹465 cro...

Under this facility, subscribers of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) can merge as many as 10 previous accounts with their ...

In the entire sixty years after Independence, the number of PF subscribers was 4.3 crore and that of ESIC subscribers was 1.9 crore.

Dattatreya said thousands of officials working in various cadres in the EPFO got promotions which were pending for the past 18 years.

The EPFO, which has about 3.7 crore subscribers, wanted to set up a bank and the proposal was discussed in the Central Board of Trustees' (...

After Kingfisher Airlines was grounded in 2012, employees had staged a massive protest over the non-payment of PF dues.

The process of procuring servers would be completed by May while the testing would start in June to gauge the response of the system in pla...

EPFO has decided to invest around Rs 410 crore in exchange trade funds (ETF) every month during the current fiscal.

The scheme, which was effective from September last year, costs Rs 800 crore per annum to the Centre and is given as grant to the ministry.

The ministry will seed employees' details such as Universal PF Account Number (UAN), Employees State Insurance, Aadhaar, PAN, bank account ...

These social service agents could also help the EPFO in a big way in case of Universal (portable PF) Account Number scheme.

“The Centre will contribute 50% of the total cost incurred on stipend in training one lakh apprentices by 2017 in the first two years under...

Private PF trusts are formed by firms that manage the money and accounts of their workers and have exemption from filing PF returns.

The decision of the government would immediately benefit 28 lakh pensioners including 5 lakh widows getting less than Rs 1000 as pension ev...

EPFO official said trusts started accepting money several years ago, including deposits, which they cannot do unless they are registered wi...

SBI is demanding a higher fee for collecting provident fund (PF) deposits. The move comes after the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (...