How to know your UAN on-line and offline?

When a member joins and has an energetic EPF account, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) assigns her or him a common 12-digit quantity often called a UAN. The UAN quantity is supplied by EPFO on the employer’s request, and within the occasion, it isn’t supplied but, it could possibly solely be generated by a member utilizing their Aadhaar quantity. Members who’ve a UAN can obtain or print their passbooks every time they need, in addition to obtain their UAN playing cards, and so they can confirm all member IDs which are linked to it. They can even file on-line switch claims, log into their EPF accounts on-line, make withdrawals on-line, replace their KYC particulars, switch their EPF accounts, or merge two EPF accounts. Your present employer has the authority to ascertain UAN, and within the occasion of a change in employment, you possibly can present the beforehand allotted UAN to your present employer in an effort to proceed together with your present UAN quantity. And in an effort to obtain the net EPF advantages as soon as your UAN has been activated, you have to hyperlink it to your checking account, PAN, and Aadhaar. However, if you’re the one who has misplaced management of your UAN or is unable to find it, then comply with these straightforward strategies supplied by EPFO to retrieve it.

How to know UAN on-line?

As per the web site of EPFO, a member can simply know his or her UAN by visiting the (epfindia.gov.in) portal.

1. Visit (epfindia.gov.in), and go to ‘Our Services’ part.

2. Click on ‘For Employees’ and beneath the companies part, click on on “Member UAN/Online Service (OCS/OTCP).”

3. Now you will be redirected to the (unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in) portal, and under the ‘Important Links’ section, click on ‘Know Your UAN’.

4. Now enter your mobile number and the required captcha code.

5. Click on ‘Request OTP’, and you will get a one-time password on your mobile number linked with your UAN.

6. Enter the OTP, and your UAN will be generated through SMS.

How to know UAN by SMS?

Members with active UAN may send an SMS to the number 7738299899 from their registered mobile number to know about their PF contribution and available balance in EPF account. The service is accessible in Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, and English (the default language). The first three characters of the preferred language must be inserted after UAN in order to receive SMS messages in any of the supported languages. For instance, enter the following text in the SMS to get it in English: “EPFOHO UAN” to 7738299899.

After sending the SMS, EPFO sends the final PF contribution and steadiness particulars of the member together with out there KYC data on the registered cell variety of the member. The members can test their UAN, most up-to-date contribution, and PF steadiness on the SMS.

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