Check your EPF balance online

You can check your EPF (Employee provident fund) balance online here: Know Your EPF Balance. This service was launched on 1st July, 2011.

On 24th July, 2012, another website to check monthly balance is also launched by EPF department. The EPFO subscribers can get their statement of accounts online on this website: EPF Member Portal. In order to avail this facility, the active subscribers would have to register themselves on the EPFO portal by furnishing their account details. The facility to obtain e-passbook will be available only for active members of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and would not be extended to those whose accounts are inoperative, settled or have negative balance.

Steps:

  1. Please click on the above link to know the balance in your EPF Account upto the date.
  2. Select the EPFO office where your account is maintained and furnish your PF Account number.
  3. Leave the extension field blank, in case your account does not have one.
  4. You will be asked to enter your name and mobile number. The given mobile number will be recorded along with the PF Account Number.
  5. On successful submission of above information, the details will be sent through SMS to the given mobile number.

We tested this out and were little disappointed as balance was only shown upto 31-03-2009 for two of our accounts, for others it says ‘Invalid Member Id’.

Account balance SMS from PF department will have following structure:
EPF Balance in A/C No. OFFICE-CODE/OFFICE-SUB-CODE/EMPLOYER-ACC-NO//EMPLOYEE-ACC-NO is EE Amt: Rs XXX, ER Amt: Rs. YYY as on 30-06-11 (Accounts updated upto 31-03-2009)-EPFO

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  • Dear Sir,
    My name is SHANKER LAL YADAV my pf no is RJ/75825/762 pls tell my balance details on my moble 9929560913 and what is the status of my pf account.

  • Dear Sir,
    My name is Vivekananda Das my PF No is MH/19900/228001 pls tell my balance details on my mobile 08653720712 and what is the status of my pf account. Already i had applied 1.5Yrs before.
    So please tell me how can i withdrawl my pf.

  • Dear Sir,
    Does the amount recieved through sms also show the pension contribution?

    Thanks and regards
    Satish

  • I'm having PF account with Tamilnadu. PF account is number starts with TN and is in the format of TN/*****/*******. I'm unable to check the balance, it says "Invalid Member_id / Data not updated against this TN/MAS/*****//*******". Please help

    • @Manish
      If your employer is not signing EPF documents, get your signature verified from a bank Manager, any gazetted officer, by Member of the Central Board of Trustees. / committee / Regional Committee (Employees' Provident Fund Organization) or Magistrate / Post / Sub Post Master / President of Village Panchayat / Notary Public and submit the Form to the PF office with a covering letter mentioning clearly the reason why you were not able to get form verified by previous employer.

  • Hi Pankaj,

    Finally my PF settlement is done (It took a year) :), there are 2 amounts credited in my account, how to the details of these 2 transactions? Like EE, ER etc, Does PF office sends the details to address?

    Thanks & Regards,
    Deepak

    • @Deepak
      Unfortunately EPF department does not sends out any statement or details of refund.
      You should crosscheck amount according to your contribution.

  • Dear Sir
    we are working couriers service iam left the job we are submit pe clearance it not come my account pf account no-29594=5122 pf submitted date 23/08/2011.
    how long it will take the clearance
    give the report immed

    Murugesan B
    9886440692

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