Hi Sharmila,
I hope you are doing well.
It's appreciable that I have received a very quick and informative response. As you described, for PF registration, it requires a minimum of 20 employees and the company should be at least 3 years old. Please clarify the following questions:
1. Does the requirement of 20 employees include both probationary and confirmed employees, or only confirmed employees?
2. Is a 3-year period of operations mandatory for PF registration, or can an organization with one year of operation and 20 employees also opt for PF?
3. What are the post-registration activities once the organization obtains the PF code?
4. How can an employee freeze their contribution, regardless of the employer's contribution?
I look forward to hearing your views.
From India, Bangalore
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40I hope you are doing well.
It's appreciable that I have received a very quick and informative response. As you described, for PF registration, it requires a minimum of 20 employees and the company should be at least 3 years old. Please clarify the following questions:
1. Does the requirement of 20 employees include both probationary and confirmed employees, or only confirmed employees?
2. Is a 3-year period of operations mandatory for PF registration, or can an organization with one year of operation and 20 employees also opt for PF?
3. What are the post-registration activities once the organization obtains the PF code?
4. How can an employee freeze their contribution, regardless of the employer's contribution?
I look forward to hearing your views.
From India, Bangalore
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Dear Ms. Aisha,
PF registration has to be done when the firm consists of 20 employees; both probationary and confirmed employees together. Three years is a mandate period, but if your employer is consistent, you may apply specifying the company is 1 year old.
Once the company gets an Establishment code, the Employer and the employee both need to fill in consent and authorization, PF-related forms to carry on the further procedure. (Please find the below attached for more information).
Once the employee has decided to provide his contribution, he shall be contributing and there isn't a way to bring it to a standstill.
CiteHR attribution: https://www.citehr.com/430880-pf-registration-reg.html
From India, Visakhapatnam
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PF registration has to be done when the firm consists of 20 employees; both probationary and confirmed employees together. Three years is a mandate period, but if your employer is consistent, you may apply specifying the company is 1 year old.
Once the company gets an Establishment code, the Employer and the employee both need to fill in consent and authorization, PF-related forms to carry on the further procedure. (Please find the below attached for more information).
Once the employee has decided to provide his contribution, he shall be contributing and there isn't a way to bring it to a standstill.
CiteHR attribution: https://www.citehr.com/430880-pf-registration-reg.html
From India, Visakhapatnam
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Hi Ms. Sharmila Das,
Thank you for the detailed explanation and the link for all forms required for PF register maintenance. Could you please provide the actual flow of activities to be done and specify each form with respect to the activity and necessity? I understand that this may be a time-consuming process to write up, but I kindly request you to give me a clear view of the procedure in a way that I can handle on my own, without further assistance.
I hope you can spare a few minutes of your valuable time to outline this for all of us.
Thank you in advance.
From India, Bangalore
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Thank you for the detailed explanation and the link for all forms required for PF register maintenance. Could you please provide the actual flow of activities to be done and specify each form with respect to the activity and necessity? I understand that this may be a time-consuming process to write up, but I kindly request you to give me a clear view of the procedure in a way that I can handle on my own, without further assistance.
I hope you can spare a few minutes of your valuable time to outline this for all of us.
Thank you in advance.
From India, Bangalore
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Dear Ms. Aisha,
I'm here to serve the best of all my knowledge to the CiteHR. Forms that have to be filed by the Employer can be understood from this link attached for your ready reference - The Employees' Provident Funds And Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952: Returns to be filed by the Employer.
In simple terms:
- Form 2: PF details
- Form 3A: Employee contribution details
- Form 5: This should be filled by the Employer for joining the new staff to PF
- Form 6A: Consolidated Employee contribution list
- Form 10: Staff details who resigned
- Form 10C: Employer's PF contribution for staff not covered with service of 10 years.
- Form 10D: Employer's PF contribution towards staff who are covered with service of 10 years or 58 years for the Pension Scheme.
- Form 12A: Different numbers of Employee contributions under accounts
- Form 19: PF withdrawal form
Hope this information is adequate for your query.
From India, Visakhapatnam
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I'm here to serve the best of all my knowledge to the CiteHR. Forms that have to be filed by the Employer can be understood from this link attached for your ready reference - The Employees' Provident Funds And Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952: Returns to be filed by the Employer.
In simple terms:
- Form 2: PF details
- Form 3A: Employee contribution details
- Form 5: This should be filled by the Employer for joining the new staff to PF
- Form 6A: Consolidated Employee contribution list
- Form 10: Staff details who resigned
- Form 10C: Employer's PF contribution for staff not covered with service of 10 years.
- Form 10D: Employer's PF contribution towards staff who are covered with service of 10 years or 58 years for the Pension Scheme.
- Form 12A: Different numbers of Employee contributions under accounts
- Form 19: PF withdrawal form
Hope this information is adequate for your query.
From India, Visakhapatnam
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Dear HR Members, Request you to share the format for new additon of an Authorized Signatory for PF(withdrawals & Transfer). Please share me the required form at the earliest. Regards, Kamesh.
From India, Kakinada
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I have done PF withdrawal online claim. After some days, a call came from the PF Office. He told me that my PF was not credited to my bank account due to some problem with my bank account number. Now, I must submit a Re-Authorization form with the bank or Employer sign and seal.
Please, if anyone has the re-authorization form, kindly share it.
From India, Mumbai
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Please, if anyone has the re-authorization form, kindly share it.
From India, Mumbai
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I have done PF withdrawal online claim. However, Claim-Form-19 (EPF Final Settlement)(Resign) with Claim ID ........ and Member ID ...... has been rejected due to: "MEMBER'S NAME DIFFERS AS PER FORM 9/MEMBER'S NAME DIFFERS AS PER FORM 9."
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