EPFO Plans to Reduce Interest Rate on Provident Fund Deposits
This is for your information as the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) plans to reduce the interest rate on provident fund deposits to 8.65% for 2016-17 from the current 8.8%. "Taking into account relevant factors, the Central Board (of Trustees) decided to recommend 8.65% interest to its subscribers for 2016-17. Roughly 17 crore subscribers' accounts will be updated with this interest rate upon acceptance by the government," labor ministry officials said after the 215th meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the EPFO's decision-making body.
The rates need to be notified by the labor ministry, which will look at the projected earnings and expenditure of the EPFO. Despite this cut, the returns will be higher than what the government pays on small savings schemes. In October this year, the government had lowered interest on many small savings schemes by 0.1 percentage points. The popular Public Provident Fund (PPF) now fetches only 8%.
Location: Delhi, India
Central Board of Trustees, decision-making, Labour Ministry, Employees Provident Fund, interest rate, City-India-Delhi, Country-India
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63This is for your information as the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) plans to reduce the interest rate on provident fund deposits to 8.65% for 2016-17 from the current 8.8%. "Taking into account relevant factors, the Central Board (of Trustees) decided to recommend 8.65% interest to its subscribers for 2016-17. Roughly 17 crore subscribers' accounts will be updated with this interest rate upon acceptance by the government," labor ministry officials said after the 215th meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the EPFO's decision-making body.
The rates need to be notified by the labor ministry, which will look at the projected earnings and expenditure of the EPFO. Despite this cut, the returns will be higher than what the government pays on small savings schemes. In October this year, the government had lowered interest on many small savings schemes by 0.1 percentage points. The popular Public Provident Fund (PPF) now fetches only 8%.
Location: Delhi, India
Central Board of Trustees, decision-making, Labour Ministry, Employees Provident Fund, interest rate, City-India-Delhi, Country-India
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From India, Delhi
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