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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  • I have tried to get the sms many times but I always get the message that
    STATUS for Member ID: HR/FBD/10640/167/21
    Invalid Member_id / Data not updated against this HR/FBD/10640/167/21
    **Data updated till 05-09-2011 13:36:23
    " Does anybody else get this message"

  • Dear Sir,
    i Anup Arvind Thale my PF No is BAN/ MH/43914/124 at PF bandra office i have been following from past 1 year but
    till date i have not received my pf amount however the PF site shows the claim has been settled but i have not received. Please tell me total Amount of PF AND when deposited to BANK.

    Regards
    Anup

  • dear sir,
    This is to inform you that as i have applied for my EPF (MH/VA/117678/29752) in the month of july 2011 and i have been informed that i will be getting my fund with in 45 days but now it has been more than 120 days and till date i have not got any response from EPF department even though after making several calls and Fax and till date i didn't get any positive answer i kindly request you to do me a favor in this regards

    Thanks in Advance

    Sanjay kumar

  • respected sir, I m dinanath kumar paswan mumbai
    sir humalog 13 workars hai aur chahte hai ki 10 sal camplit karte hai taki pf ka pensioner bane sir pensioner banane ke liye kya ruls hai plz hume batane ka kast kare NEERI, 89B/DR,A.B.ROAD WORLI MUMBAI 400018

  • Hi Sir,
    Please Update my PF Withrawal Prosess.
    I Submit my PF Withrawal Form My PrivesCompani at April 2010 & he submit to this form PF Office (Golibar Maidan, Pune, MAharashtra) as Sep. 2010. But I have not recvd my PF Withrawal Amount Balanc in my Bank A/c. So please Update me Sir,

    Santosh Swami
    9767523808

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