With a view to reduce time and paper consumption, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization has issued a format for making a Joint Request which is required to be filed and processed in digital mode under *Para 26 (6) of Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, 1952 for all new cases going forward.
Further, it is clarified that existing members contributing beyond the statutory limit and employers paid administrative charges, are not required to file their Joint Requests digitally in the new format immediately.
Cases related to Pension on Higher Wages, as per the Supreme Court Judgement dated 4th November, 2022, are already addressed in an earlier Circular dated 14th June, 2023.
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* Para 26(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this paragraph [an officer not below the rank of an Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner] may, on the joint request in writing, of any employee of a factory or other establishment to which this Scheme applies and his employer, enroll such employee as a member or allow him to contribute more than rupees [fifteen thousand rupees] of his pay per month if he is already a member of the Fund and thereupon such employee shall be entitled to the benefits and shall be subject to the conditions of the Fund, provided that the employer gives an undertaking in writing that he shall pay the administrative charges payable and shall comply with all statutory provisions in respect of such employee.
Source: Ministry of Labour and Employment
