EPFO Pension: If you or someone in your family gets pension from Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) every month, then this news is of their use. Yes, there is going to be a big change in the system of pension amount from EPFO.
All pensioners will get the benefit of this. Let us tell you that the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) will approve it after considering the proposal for setting up a central pension distribution system in the meeting to be held on July 29 and 30.
The proposal will be placed in the meeting to be held soon.
With the establishment of this system, pension can be transferred in one go to the accounts of 73 lakh pensioners across the country. At present, 138 regional offices of EPFO ​​transfer pension to the account of the beneficiaries of their area. With this, these pensioners get pension on different days and times. Sources said that in the meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the apex decision-making body of the EPFO, to be held on July 29 and 30, a proposal for the formation of a central pension distribution system will be made.
73 lakh pensioners will get together, the pension
source said that after the establishment of this system, the distribution of pension will be done on the basis of the database of 138 regional offices. With this, 73 lakh pensioners will be given pension simultaneously. The source also said that all the regional offices deal with the needs of the pensioners of their region differently. With this, pensioners are able to pay pension on different days.
In the 229th meeting of the CBT held on November 20, 2021, the trustees had approved the proposal for development of a centralized IT based system by C-DAC. The Labor Ministry had said in a statement after the meeting that after this the details of regional offices would be transferred to the central database in a phased manner. This will facilitate the operation and supply of services.
