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The Centre has extended the time to submit joint options to claim higher provident fund pension till June 26..
The process was initiated to implement a Supreme Court verdict on November 4 on higher PF pension..
This has been decided after sympathetically considering the various demands received from employees, employers and their associations, it said.. Ten Central Trade Unions had recently written a letter to Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav complaining that the requirement of applying exclusively online, is discriminatory and prevents large sections of employees who are not familiar with online procedures from exercising their option..
The EPF Staff complain of spending hours on end in front of the screens, before the system becomes responsive, the CTUs said.. They had also said that the requirement for the proof of higher contribution to be provided by the employee in the online application is meaningless as the PF contribution of both the employee and employer is available with the EPFO..
We request that such a requirement should be scrapped, they said.. They added that the calculation of the actual quantum of money to be recovered from the provident fund of the employee towards the pension fund for higher pension is proving to be a challenging task..
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