Navigating Dual Employment: Will EPFO Raise Concerns Over 15-Day PF Overlap?

I was employed at Company X for 10 years and resigned on 25/1/2011. I had a 3-month notice period and was asked by the company not to attend the office during this notice period. I did not attend the office until 25/4/2011 at Company X. Company X paid me the salary, including depositing my PF to EPFO, until the end of the notice period on 25/4/2011. Meanwhile, I picked up another employment at Company Y and joined them on 10/4/2011. Company Y also had PF and paid my PF amount to EPFO from 11/4/2011. Both Company X and Y have paid EPFO for the 15 days of overlap. I claimed the Company X EPFO full amount in July 2011, which was paid. I have now claimed the Company Y EPFO amount (due to my retirement) from EPFO. Please advise if EPFO can object to this 15 days overlap (dual payment of PF and apparent dual income).

As you were able to withdraw the PF amount from company X, I presume this PF account may not have been linked to your UAN and that the exit date with the EPFO records had been updated as 25-4-2011 by company X.

With the PF account for company Y being different and in all probability linked to your UAN and Aadhaar details, from what I see, there shouldn't be an issue for your claim from company Y.

If my recollection is correct, it was sometime in the second half of 2014 that UAN linking of PF became mandatory. If this situation of having two PF accounts from two companies at the same time had occurred in 2014, then there would have been a problem because UAN linking of PF accounts with overlapping durations would not have been possible.