EPFO gives good news to its subscribers, deadline for submission of life certificate extended till 28 February
The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has extended the last date for submission of Life Certificate for its pensioners till 28 February 2021. This step of EPFO will benefit 35 lakh people who had not submitted their life certificates till November due to the coronavirus epidemic. The Ministry of Labor has said that pensioners who have not been able to submit their life certificate till November 30, will get a pension every month by February and they can submit their life certificate by February 28. The ministry said that the Covid-19 poses the greatest threat to the elderly and in view of this, the EPFO has extended the deadline for pensioners to 28 February 2021.
In general, pensioners are required to submit their life certificate by 30 November every year. According to the new rules, EPFO pensioners can send their life certificate to the concerned office anytime of the year. The period of the certificate will be valid for one year from the date of submission. That is, if a pension holder submits a life certificate on 1 January, it will be valid till the same date next year.
How to submit a life certificate
Pensioners can submit a life certificate physically in a bank or any branch with their pension account. Apart from this, a life certificate can also be submitted digitally by visiting https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in. Pensioners can also submit a life certificate through their nearest post office, nearest Aadhaar outlet, 135 regional offices of CSC, Umang App or EPFO and 117 district offices. Recently India Post Payments Bank has started the service of submitting Digital Life Certificate from home. However, pensioners will have to pay a nominal fee for this.
These documents will be needed
Aadhaar number, mobile number, pension payment order (PPO) number and account number are required to submit a digital life certificate. For submitting a digital life certificate, it is necessary to have the pension account linked with the Aadhaar number. To submit a life certificate in physical form, you can download it from the banks’ website and fill it and submit it. For physical submission, the original PPO, bank passbook, Aadhaar card, photocopy of all these, mobile number, name of Pension Sanctioning Authority will be required. If the pensioner is re-employed or the family pensioner is remarried, the life certificate will be submitted only in the physical format.
