Are you a subscriber to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) who needs to make some immediate changes to their fund account and doesn’t know how to proceed? This EPFO guide should come in really handy to you.
Whether it is the change of name, editing the date of birth, putting in a new address or even altering your nationality. Be assured, the EPFO authorities allow subscribers to make changes to their EPF profile. In certain cases, these tweaks can be made without having to upload documents.
First of all, those eyeing changes to their EPF profile should know what exact changes they can go for. The alterations can be made in the account for name, nationality, name of parents, marital status, date of joining, and date of leaving. These changes, as mentioned above, can be made without issuing documents on the portal when certain conditions are fulfilled.
When Do We Not Need Documents?
According to the EPFO’s latest guidelines, individuals subscribed to the EPFO scheme can also change their registered nationality in two specific cases. The first, when the nationality section is currently blank and you want to make it ‘Indian’. The second case concerns instances when subscribers wish to change from Indian to ‘international’.
To make any type of change without having to upload the documents, a subscriber must have undergone a specific procedure related to the UAN (Universal Account Number). If you had made your UAN active before 1st October 2017 and validated it with the Aadhaar, you don’t necessarily require documents to undergo the desired changes. For this process, however, you will also need a joint declaration involving the employer’s approval.
What Happens If UAN Isn’t Aadhaar-Linked?
If the UAN is not linked with the Aadhaar Card and is not presented at all, the subscriber will have to submit a physical joint declaration to their employer. The employer will then upload it and submit it to EPFO via the employer’s account. Subsequently, the documents would reach EPFO’s office.
In a rare case where your employer has closed its operations permanently, the subscriber will require a joint declaration that must be signed with by one of the listed officials. It could be a gazette officer, notary public, Member of Parliament (MP), post master, village panchayat leader. This joint declaration must then be submitted to the EPFO office along with the necessary documents.
