Check Your EPF Account Balance in in 4 easy ways

Check Your EPF Account Balance in 6 Easy Steps

As an employee whose provident gets deducted every month, it is now not required to wait until the end of the year for the statement of your Employee Provident Fund provided by your employer. As a member of Employee’ Provident Fund Organization, it is very easy to check PF balance statement anytime through online through the app, EPFO portal, SMS or even as simple as giving a missed call. Check your EPF Account Balance in 6 Easy Steps

Do you know the total accumulated balance in your employee’s provident fund (EPF)? In case you are keen to know the balance and are unable to do so, it is an easy process if you have been allotted a Universal Account Number (UAN) by the EPFO.

 In case you do not have your 12-digit UAN, you can get it activated by your employer to know the summary of PF deducted through EPFO portal. All employees need to have only one UAN throughout their working life irrespective of the number of companies they change. It is a universal account number (UAN) which facilitates in linking of multiple EPF accounts of a member.

To see your EPFO account and view your provident fund passbook online, you need to follow these simple steps:

Step 1

Employees need to log in the member portal by visiting the EPFO website (unifiedportalmem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface/). You need to enter your 12 digit Activated UAN number and the password to view your account details. If you have not activated your UAN, you can also activate it by clicking on the tab below. Once you have entered the right credentials, it takes four days to activate your UAN.

Step 2

Once you have entered into the portal, you can find all kind of online services that are available on the EPFO website. From there you can track your queries related to claim status, transferring request, which is required in case your current employer has created another UAN number to track your PF account.

Step 3

You can see various tabs present on the dark green ribbon above. Clicking on the ‘view’ tab will take you to visit your profile, service history, UAN card and your passbook address. This passbook address is a separate website link where you can view your PF account.

Step 4

To view your PF passbook, you need to visit epfindia.gov.in website. This is a different website where you can view various other details related to EPFO. You need to go to the ‘our service’ tab and under our service tab, you need to click on the ‘for employees’ link. To view the EPF contributions done by your employer every month you need to then click on the ‘member passbook’ link.

Step 5

After clicking on the member passbook link, you will be redirected to a separate tab, where you need to re-enter your activated UAN and the same EPFO passwords which you used it for the EPFO member login portal.

Step 6

Once you have entered your credentials, you can visit your EPF passbook and view your PF contribution made by the company.

2. By sending an SMS

You can also check PF balance over an SMS. If your unique UAN number has been registered with EPFO, you can get details of your latest statement and the Provident Fund balance by sending an SMS text as “EPFOHO ” to 7738299899 where is the first three characters of the preferred language. So, if you want to receive the message in Hindi, then type in EPFOHO UAN HIN.
ThisSMS facility is available in Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi, Malayalam, English, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada and Bengali. EPFO can only send details of members available with it. So, make sure your UAN is seeded with your bank account, Aadhaar, and PAN, else ask your employer to seed them for you.

3. By giving a missed call

Now a missed call to 011-22901406 from your registered mobile number can provide you the current statement of your PF account provided your UAN and the registered mobile number is seeded to the UAN portal and your UAN is having a registered valid account number, Aadhar Number, and PAN. You can ask your Employer to do so if it is not already done.

4. By using the EPFO app

You can download the m-sewa app of EPFO and then navigate to “Member” and then to “Balance/Passbook”. You can provide the details of the UAN number and registered mobile number to get the updated EPF statement.

                The government has come up with various other benefits where they are giving special benefits to employees who had to leave their current job due to some physical incapacitation. If you want to visit the office, you may even locate the nearest EPFO office through this EPFO website, you can also view the eligibility for making online claims and obtain lots more service facilities through this online portal.