EPFO extends deadline for submitting Aadhaar till March 31

Employees' Provident Fund Organisation,EPFO has extended the deadline for submitting Aadhaar number by its members till 31st of next month. Earlier the time period of submission of Aadhaar was 28th of this month. In its order, the EPFO said that all the members of Employees' Pension Scheme 1995 should submit Aadhaar number authentication on or before 31st of next month.It has been made mandatory for



subscribers to submit the Aadhaar number for continuing the benefits under its scheme.EPFO in its order said that the deadline for submitting Aadhaar linked digital life certificate has also been extended till March 31, 2017.

In January, EPFO had decided to extend the date of submission through Jeevan Pramaan Patra programme to February 28. This was done to make the job easy for pensioner.