Posted by & filed under Provident Fund - (Notification -Circulars).

As per recent EPFO circular dated 11th July 2017, the EPFO has provided solution to certain challenges that the employers were facing viz. 

(1) Issue of Incorrect Month/ Year was mentioned in ECR – In the EPFO application the provision for ECR Revision (Month/Year) has been provided to revise ECRs where month and year needs to be changed, provided no settlement is made and no PMRPY beneficiary exists. 

(2) Incorrect UAN mentioned in ECR/Double TRRN for the same month – the EPFO has provided Application Version 5.36 for the field offices to reject ECRs or adjust amount or refund the amount to the employer. 

(3) Double Payment made by employer for same month using different TRRN/ Double Payment paid by employer against same TRRN and wants to get refund – the EPFO has stated that the Unified portal has already taken steps to refund the amount to the employer directly to their bank account. 

(4) To refund the amount against amount paid in misc. option – the EPFO has stated that currently misc. payments and receipts are being managed by field office manually. Hence field offices may refund the amount to the employer after verifying the details by preparing a cheque manually. Against this cheque, misc. payment entry in the application software may be made. In the future, Field office may also opt to adjust the amount against the future TRRN using Establishment VDR



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