EPFO launches face authentication: Retirement fund body EPFO has started a new facility for 73 lakh pensioners. Now pensioners can take the help of face recognition facility to file their digital life certificate. It will help pensioners who face difficulties in matching their bio-metrics (fingerprint and iris) due to old age to file life certificates.
Pensioners can avail this facility from any where. Let us tell you that in order to get pension, life certificate has to be filed every year. Through this, proof of being alive is given.
Calculator also facility: Union Labor and Employment Minister Bhupendra Yadav has given green signal to face authentication technology for pensioners. Along with this, the Labor Minister has also launched an insurance scheme calculator related to pension and employee deposits. Through this calculator, pensioners and family members will get the facility of online calculation of death benefits in addition to pension.
Employees-Officer Harmony: Along with this, the Labor Minister has also released the training policy of EPFO. Its objective is to develop the officers and employees of EPFO into an enabling, responsive and future ready environment. Under the training policy, 14,000 personnel will be trained annually for 8 days and its total budget will be 3% of the salary budget.
At the same time, the Labor Minister also released a legal framework document with a view to make EPFO efficient and responsible to ensure litigation and its disposal in a time bound manner.
