Employees get interest on the amount deposited in PF account. For the financial year 2021-22, 8.1 percent interest was being given to the employees on the PF account. Employees have been waiting for the interest to be received on the PF account for a long time.
New Delhi: Most of the employees across the country contribute to the PF account. Employees deposit some part of their salary in PF account every month. Along with this, the employer company also deposits a certain amount in the employee’s account. Interest is also available on this deposit in PF account. For the financial year 2021-22, 8.1 percent interest was being given to the employees on the PF account. Employees have been waiting for the interest to be received on the PF account for a long time. According to media reports, interest money can be credited in the PF account of employees till June 30, 2022. You can also check sitting at home whether the interest money has been credited in your PF account or not.
For the convenience of the account holders, EPFO has shared this information from its official Twitter handle that how any account holder can check the balance of his PF account sitting at home.
How to check your PF account balance
Via missed call
Any account holder can check the balance of his PF account by making a missed call on EPFO’s helpline number 011-22901406 from his registered mobile.
Via SMS
- To check your PF account balance through SMS, first you have to send EPFO UAN LAN from your registered mobile number to 7738299899.
- Here LAN means language in which language you want to check your balance.
Check balance online like this
- Account holders can check PF account balance by visiting the official website of EPFO sitting at home. Here you have to log in through UAN number and password.
- After this you have to click on the option of ‘Passbook’ and you will be able to see the balance of your PF account on your screen.
Via UMANG App
- Any PF account holder can download the UMANG app on his smartphone and check the balance of his PF account through it also.
- You have to click on the option of ‘EPFO’ in UMANG app. After this, you will have to log in here through your UAN number and OTP.
- Here you can check the balance of your PF account by clicking on the option ‘Passbook’.
