Universal Account Number (UAN) Services for Provident fund members:
A Universal Account Number (UAN) will be generated for each of the PF contributing members during the period 01/01/2014 to 30/06/2014 by EPFO. The UAN will act as an umbrella for the multiple Member Ids allotted to an individual by different establishments. The idea is to link multiple Member Identification Numbers (Member Id) allotted to a single member under single Universal Account Number. This will help the member to view details of all the Member Identification Numbers (Member Id) linked to it. If a member is already allotted Universal Account Number (UAN) then he / she is required to provide the same on joining new establishment to enable the employer to in-turn mark the new allotted Member Identification Number (Member Id) to the already allotted Universal Identification Number (UAN).
UAN will eliminate dependency on employer for capturing details of the members. Employer can do this process online and there is no need to upload any scanned copy of KYC but bulk upload using txt file is possible using digital signature of the employer
A Universal Account Number for each of the PF Account Number appearing in the ECR w.e.f. January 2014 to June 2014 has been allotted by EPFO. The UAN acts as an umbrella for the multiple Member Ids allotted to the same individual. The idea is to link multiple Member Identification Numbers (Member Id) allotted to a single member under single Universal Account Number.
The main objective behind this new function is to capture KYC details of its members in order to eliminate the dependency on the employer and improve the quality of service. The KYC details are being tagged against the allotted UAN rather the member id thereby eliminating the redundancy.
