The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has announced a major relief for its over 7.5 crore members. Union Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had said on June 24, 2025 that EPFO ​​has increased the auto-claim settlement limit of PF (Provident Fund) from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. This move will prove to be a boon for those who need money urgently in emergencies.

This new rule of EPFO ​​will make the method of withdrawing funds easier and faster. This auto-claim facility, which was started in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, earlier helped in withdrawing funds for illness. Now it has been further expanded. Now claims up to Rs 5 lakh can also be settled automatically for important works like education, marriage and house construction.

Features of EPFO ​​Auto Claim

• Faster processing: 95 percent of claims are now settled within 3 days, which previously took 10 days.
• Withdraw through UPI and ATM: By May-June 2025, EPFO ​​members will also be able to withdraw money through UPI and ATM.
• Less Rejection: The claim rejection rate has come down from 50% to 30%. This simply means that the chances of the claim being approved are now higher.
• Less hassle: If KYC is complete and Aadhaar, PAN card and bank details are linked, the claim will be processed without any documents.

How to take advantage?

Log in to your UAN portal, verify your KYC, and file a claim online. With just a few clicks, the money will be in your account. Your UAN should be linked to Aadhaar. If so, you won’t need the employer’s approval to update the bank details.

EPFO aims to settle all claims like pension, insurance and PF withdrawal within 72 hours. For this, new technologies like AI and machine learning are being used, which will further improve the experience of your fund holders.

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There are strong indications that the members who have opted for higher pension in the EPF will start getting pension from April-May this year. However, in the meantime, there has been disappointing news for more than 7 lakh EPF members and pensioners. The Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) says that out of 17.49 lakh applicants seeking higher PF pension in proportion to their salary, 7.35 lakh are not eligible for this benefit.

Even after two years of the Supreme Court’s verdict on Higher PF Pension, only 24,006 individuals have received revised pension so far. Along with this, 2.14 lakh applications are still being reviewed by EPFO, while 2.24 lakh applications are yet to be sent to the agency by employers. Meanwhile, EPFO ​​has returned 3.92 lakh applications to employers due to incomplete details, while demand letters for additional payment have been issued to 2.19 lakh applicants.

Kerala lags behind in disposing of applications

Kerala has lagged behind in sanctioning applications for the Joint Option Scheme. So far, only 27.35 per cent of the applications have been processed in the state. At the national level, the settlement rate is 58.95 per cent. Out of 72,712 applications submitted from Kerala, only 19,886 have been disposed of. These include applications that were rejected and those for which demand letters have been issued.

EPFO estimates that Rs 1.86 lakh crore will be required to approve at least half of the combined option applications for high PF pension. The organisation has long been citing this financial burden as the reason for the delay in approvals. A sample check of 38,000 applications has revealed that the pension fund will lose Rs 9,500 crore by paying higher pension. EPFO ​​has said that it will use the data collected to calculate the additional financial liability. These estimates have been revealed in the documents of the recent EPFO ​​​​Board of Trustees meeting.

This scheme was implemented after the Supreme Court verdict: EPFO’s popular Higher PF Pension scheme is being implemented as per the Supreme Court verdict of November 4, 2022. Under this, those who had initially applied are getting pension, but after this, the applications sought by all interested members of EPFO ​​to give the option of higher pension have not been fully implemented due to several complications.

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