The website will be operational within a few days for the benefit of EPF subscribers of GOA State
Account compilation for the year 2007-08
EPF Account compilation for the year 2007-08 has been started at the EPF offices. Slips are being issued to members. From this site, You can verify whether Slips pertains to your establishment has been issued or not.
Employer share will be much lesser than Employee's share as 8.33% of wages is diverted to pension fund from employer share
Website covering all the EPFO Offices of Kerala State can be accessed at http://www.epfkerala.in
General Info. reg. Transfer of accounts
While transferring to Exempted
Provident Fund Balance is transferred and
the Pension Fund is kept at this office. So the Provident Fund balance
can not be known from this office. Regarding the Pension Fund balance, the amount in that account is not much important, as for calculation of pension, the amount in
Pen.Fund is not considered. Only the service and the average of salary is important.
It is the duty of EPFO to recover the Pension Fund amount from Establishments
For transfer you have submit Form-13 through your employer clearly writing the From and to account numbers.
The status
of this application for transfer (Whether done or not) can be verified
from site or from office at that time. This information is kept on
site for 45 days from the date of receipt of the application.
When a member joins an establishment (by transfer or not), the establishment should give him a unique new EPF number. He should not be adjusted with the EPF number of another EPF member who has left the establishment.
No ceiling of salary for availing the epf benefits. But age should be less than 58 or retirement age as per the law.
But the employer need not to contribute to Provident fund or Administrative charges on behalf of the amount which is more than 6500/- salary per month.
Eg: consider 2 employees. One is drawing 6400/- and the other 10,000/- per month as per official records. Apart from the Employees own contribution to PF, the employer has to remit Rs. 6400*12/100 to PF on behalf of first employee and Rs.6500*12/100 on behalf of 2nd employee. (out of this 12%, 8.33% goes to Pension Fund) Further employer has to remit administrative charges at the prescribed rates on Rs. 6400+6500