In what could bring down home loan rates, the Employees Provident Fund board is toying with the idea of investing in mortgage-backed securities as part of its multi-pronged strategy to raise returns on its assets.
Employees' Pension Scheme has been asked to fold up and hand over subscribers to National Pension System
While Employees State Insurance Corporation data shows job creation in February had dropped, Employees' Provident Fund Organisation said it had actually shown robust growth.
An employee should always keep his bank account active inorder to claim PPF after he joins a new office.
An open letter written by women employees of KFA alleged that the company did not pay salaries
Did you know that your EPF contribution also goes towards insuring you, giving you and your spouse a pension apart from giving you a lump sum amount after retirement?
Finance Ministry had earlier lowered interest rate to 8.7 per cent for 2015-16.
'Every Indian citizen is already exposed to massive digital surveillance and most are already vulnerable to data theft and cyber-impersonation as well,' points out Devangshu Datta.
In 2006, FM made it mandatory for all private PF Trusts to seek exemption certificates.
Once in place, the new system is expected to benefit around 60 million workers covered under EPFO.
Provident fund body may get support to ensure interest rate comparable with other savings instruments.
Around 61 million subscribers of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) are likely to get lower returns on their deposits this year.
The main purpose of the meeting is to assess their views on reforms that are required to attract long-term capital into the country.
Despite the equity booster, many would be uncomfortable about NPS.
'If you consider only demonetisation and GST as my government's work, it will be a big injustice to me.'
Here's what you MUST know to check your Employees' Provident Fund balance and status online.
Every organisation will also prioritise the areas requiring mandatory inspection, and the cases forwarded by the CAIU will be on data and evidence basis.
India is not producing good jobs, but creating a lot of Rs 10,000-Rs 15,000 low-paid jobs which are not fancied by degree holders. Pai suggested that India adopt the Chinese model of opening up labour-intensive industries and building infrastructure near coasts, besides investing heavily in hitech R&D to meet the aspirations of job-seekers.
An expert group has called for carving out two separate accounts -- PF and annuity -- in the employee provident fund scheme to meet the challenge of fund depletion in the pension scheme and introducing greater transparency for subscribers.
The proposal had attracted strong criticism from the salaried class.
Often criticised for offering less attractive interest rates than banks for most of the last five years, retirement fund manager EPFO hiked the annual rate of returns on employee provident funds to 9.5 per cent in 2010 and this time around, the banks were left behind.
The Union finance ministry is believed to have agreed to modify its notification for exempting from tax the entire 9.5 per cent interest on provident fund deposits for 2010-11, and will soon announce the good news for EPFO's 6 crore (60 million) depositors.
PF is a long-term investment tool for funding your retirement. It should not be used as a short-term funding source each time you shift jobs. You lose out on the power of compounding to build the corpus.
The CBT headed by Union labour minister would meet on September 4.
The committee has termed the Employee Provident Fund Organisation's data on number of pensioners subscribed to the Employee's Pension Scheme, 1995 as 'inflated and imaginary'. Top officials of the labour ministry and the provident fund organisation were unable to explain how calculations for pensionary liability were arrived at without knowing the number of pensioners in the country.
While govt has decided to maintain status quo, don't use the money for house, marriage or education
A member of the Central Board of Trustees D L Sachdev said, "It is quite possible that people might have resorted to withdrawing money from their provident fund accounts. But increase in the number of such applications cannot be solely attributed to job losses due to recession".
The decision would leave a surplus of Rs 15.26 crore.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who wants pension and insurance funds to invest more in equities and infrastructure.
Leading private financial players HSBC and ICICI Prudential along with country's largest bank SBI have been shortlisted to manage about Rs 25,000 crore (Rs 250 billion) in provident fund of about four crore employees annually.
According to the law, the contribution "should not be more than 5 per cent of the amount paid to gig workers. The government is likely to start seeking contribution from gig companies towards the fund from April 1, 2021.
The abolition of wealth tax is again a welcome step.
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The finance and investment committee of the EPFO, which met this morning, unanimously rejected the proposal for parking up to 15 per cent of its funds totalling around Rs 1,82,000 crore (Rs 1,820 billion) into shares of listed companies as also equity linked schemes of mutual funds. The committee, sources said, was opposed to the proposal of the finance ministry in view of the volatility witnessed in the stock markets in the recent past.
The biggest worry is not the shrinking of the labour market, but the collapse of good jobs.
Over the years, NHAI's expenses have spiraled due to sharp increase in land acquisition costs, while budgetary support has shrunk, leading it to fall back on internal resources and market borrowings
The Employees' Provident Fund Office in Chennai said it intends to attach the properties of the promoters of struggling retail chain Subhiksha to meet provident fund dues for around 4,500 employees in and around the city.
A senior EPFO official said, "(Subhiksha) was given 15 days, starting February 20, to pay the PF dues. Since these were not paid, we will go ahead with the action and set a target to collect the dues before March 31, 2009, when the fiscal year comes to an end." The PF dues to be paid for the June-September period of 2008 were around Rs 1.46 crore. The status of Subhiksha's PF payments in other parts of the country will also be checked.
The government has deferred the decision on fixing the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) rate of interest for the current fiscal till the next meeting of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation.
If you looked back at 2018 and had to give it a name, the Year of Limitations might be the most accurate.
