Employers responsibility on pf claim settlement

Do you have acknowledgment of having submitted the PF withdrawal forms to employer in any form? First of all extract an acknowledgment that can not be denied later. The designated HR person has to attest the PF forms within 5 days to concerned PF office and supply the acknowledgment issued by PF office (for you) to you. YOu may demand the copy of the acknowledgment.

If the employer has made any false representation you may lodge complaint with RPFC.

The DCDRF can also attend to your complaint.

Well advised by our Kumar Doab as above, nothing more to add in it except that you should first take the acknowledgement of the application submitted on your behalf issued by the EPF Office and then can proceed for the further case in the PF Tribunal for non payment of the PF in time OR if there is sone deficiency on the part of the Employer to get facilitated your PR refund.

Steps to EPF Withdrawal

1. Download the new form of the EPF withdrawal. This form is separate from the regular Form 19, Form 10C and form 31. The new forms are simplified and contains very few fields.
2. In these form you need to fill the mobile number, name, UAN, Address, Date of leaving, reason of leaving, and PAN.
   1. To withdraw the EPF amount only, you should fill the Form 19 UAN.
   2. To withdraw the pension benefit under EPS, you need to fill the form 10C UAN
3. Attach a canceled cheque along with these forms.
4. Submit the new EPF withdrawal forms and canceled cheque to the regional EPF office.

Note, you have to keep in mind that EPFO would tally your bank account number of canceled cheque with the number mentioned in UAN database. Both of these account should match as EPF balance would be deposited into the bank account mentioned in UAN database.

Alternative Procedure For Applying through Employer:

1. Visit to the human resource department of the employer with a copy of the blank cheque is enough.
2. The HR department will give you the form 19 and 10 C. You can have it beforehand.
3. Even you can ask information about your joining and leaving date from the HR.
4. Submit both the forms with HR.
5. HR will attest the form and send it to the regional PF office.
6. The regional PF office takes about one month to process your application.
7. EPFO deposits PF amount directly to the employee’s account.