EPF
EPF is known as PF. Provident Fund is another name for “Pension Fund”. ts purpose is to provide employees with lump sum payments at the time of exit from their place of employment. The primary purpose of PF is to help employees to save a fraction of their salary every month so that he/ she can use the same in an event that the employee is temporarily or no longer fit to work or at retirement. Employers and employees both contribute @12% of wages in contribution account.
As per the new rule, EPFO allows withdrawal of 75% of the EPF corpus after 1 month of unemployment. The remaining 25% can be transferred to a new EPF account after gaining new employment. As per the old rule, 100% EPF withdrawal is allowed after 2 months of unemployment.
Employee Provident Fund (EPF) is required to provide wider benefits to the workers on the completion of their employment. Every establishment with 20 or more employees should register under the EPF office. With the amendment in the rule of EPF, the limit of the minimum employee is 10 employee. The establishment has to register if it has 10 or more employee under the Employee Provident Fund
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