The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (abbreviated to EPFO), is an organization tasked to assist the Central Board of Trustees, Employees’ Provident Fund a statutory body formed by the Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 and is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India.
EPFO assists the Central Board in administering a compulsory contributory Provident Fund Scheme, a Pension Scheme and an Insurance Scheme for the workforce engaged in the organized sector in India. It is also the nodal agency for implementing Bilateral Social Security Agreements with other countries on a reciprocal basis. The schemes cover Indian workers as well as International workers (for countries with which bilateral agreements have been signed. As of now 19 Social Security Agreements are operational). It is the largest social security organisations in the World in terms of the number of covered beneficiaries and largest in India in terms of the volume of financial transactions undertaken. The EPFO’s apex decision making body is the Central Board of Trustees (CBT).
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) account holders who want to know their latest Provident Fund (PF) contribution and balance available with the EPFO can use the ‘Short Code SMS Service’ of the organisation. Any UAN
(Universal Account Number) activated member can use the SMS service by sending an SMS from their registered number at 7738299899.
All you have to do is to type “EPFOHO UAN” and send your request at 7738299899. The SMS facility is available for the account holders in English (default) and Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali languages.
For receiving the SMS in any of the languages other than English, the first three characters of the preferred language need to be added after UAN.
For example, to receive in SMS in Telugu then SMS to be sent will be “EPFOHO UAN TEL” to 7738299899.
SMS should be sent from the registered mobile number of UAN. EPFO sends last PF contribution and balance details of the member along with available KYC information. The facility is available in 10 (ten) languages.
Codes for the languages supported by the service are:
1. English- Default
2. Hindi- HIN
3. Punjabi- PUN
4. Gujarati- GUJ
5. Marathi- MAR
6. Kannada- KAN
7. Telugu- TEL
8. Tamil- TAM
9. Malayalam-MAL
10.Bengali- BEN
EPFO is one of the World’s largest Social Security Organisations in terms of clientele and the volume of financial transactions undertaken. At present, it maintains 19.34 crore accounts (Annual Report 2016-17) pertaining to its members,” as per the EPFO website.
