Need Help With PF Withdrawal: How to Access My Funds Online From Mumbai?

Hi there, I am Nitin. I worked for HCL BPO in Noida for 6 months in 2011. I want to withdraw my PF amount from that company. Currently, I am in Mumbai so I am not able to visit there for the same. Can you please help me regarding that? My PF account number is HIL EPF Trust - HR/5572/211547.

How can I withdraw online or from Mumbai? Please help.

Dear Nitin,

It is always better to transfer the amount pertaining to PF accumulations rather than withdrawing. Hence, please fill in the Form 13 R (in duplicate) regarding the transfer of PF accumulations and get it filled correctly from your current employer. It will take time, but the accumulations pertaining to PF & EPS will get transferred.

In 2011, in a case where the contribution is not directly deposited to EPF but to the company PF trust, you need to communicate with the previous employer and the trust to request the submission of the necessary forms. This is because the trust must send your corpus to EPFO.

EPFO cannot directly claim from the trust unless the trust sends the same.

EST code: GNGGN0005572000

Establishment Name: HCL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, PLOT NO. 3, UDYOG VIHARPHASE-I, GURGAON

Please note down the current details for filing Form 13(R).

I have just two questions regarding the same:

1) Can the PF trust send the accumulations pertaining to EPF directly to the new PF account once the concerned account holder has applied for it?

2) One case pertaining to EPF withdrawal by a retired employee is pending. The concerned retired employee is not willing at all to submit the form for withdrawal of EPF accumulations and has been submitting representations at all the higher levels possible, claiming that the organization has not settled his PF account. Ours is a Trust. Any suggestions, please?

Thank you.

Understanding Trust-Based Provident Fund (PF) Withdrawals

Trust PF has a separate identity. Though they submit returns to the EPFO, the corpus is retained under the trust itself. Therefore, transfer or withdrawal from a trust-based PF is possible only by submitting documents to the trust.

In the case of closed units, Form 13 signed by the present employer also works, but it takes months to get executed as PF trusts would confirm it with the employer again.

The organization has no role in the settlement of EPF except for the payment of contributions and endorsement of documents submitted by the employee. The organization has to check the Date of Joining/Date of Leaving/Name and attached documents (KYC), and attest the signature of the employee. However, in pension cases, the employer has to submit the last 12 months' contribution records on a form and issue a break/no break certificate only.

It is the money of the employee, and the employer has no control over it. However, they have to ensure that the correct person is claiming the fund, as neither the trust fund nor the EPFO is familiar with the employee. Only the employer can certify that the person was employed and was an actual contributor.

Regards