What is EPF E-Nomination And How To Do That

by Kirti Singh Content Marketer

In order to prevent the frequent physical crowd, the government has decided to roll out an e-nomination service. Under the service, employees can ensure the proper nomination of their funds on the website itself.

Currently, filing e-nomination on the EPFO portal takes not more than 15 minutes only. Unlike the old process which use to take a lot more time.

Why is it Important to file an E-nominationation of Employee’s Provident Fund?

If a PF Balance Check Number holder files an E-nomination then it helps them in easy online pension claims without any hassle. Under any unforeseen circumstances, say in case of the demise of the EPFO account holder. If EPFO account holder has filed a nominee well in time before then their nominees can easily apply for an online composite claim. E-nomination is also helpful in the case of the actuarial valuation of the pension fund.

What are the Prerequisites before filing E–nomination of Employee’s Provident Fund?

The EPFO account holder should ensure that the UAN number is active on the EPFO portal if it is not done yet.
UAN number of the EPFO account holder should be linked with their Aadhar card. Which further should be linked to the mobile number where the One Time Password will come.
Other requirements are Aadhar Card number, address proof, date of birth, bank account details, mobile number, and digital copies of recent photographs of all nominees as per the E – nomination rules.

How to File E–nomination in EPFO portal?

PF Account holder will have to visit the EPFO portal online and will log in to his/her EPFO account by entering the UAN number, password & captcha.
Next, he/she has to open the ‘View tab’ & then click on the ‘Profile button’. In order to upload his/her photograph if has not been done already.
The profile page will display details like UAN Log In number, Name of the PF account holder, Date of Birth, gender, etc. He/ she has to provide his/ her ‘Permanent Address’ details in the relevant field. After that click on the ’Save’ button.
Once the employee has completed the process of uploading his/herprofile photo, then he/she can go back to the ‘Manage Option’
Now, in the manage option, EPFO account holder will have to click the ‘E-NOMINATION LINK, where he/ she can click on ‘Enter new Nomination’

Here he/she will be asked few questions like ‘If he/she has a family?’. In case, he/ she chooses, ‘YES’ in the ‘HAVE FAMILY’ option tab, then the site will ask for some more family details and the scanned colored photographs of the family members. He/she can add all their family members by simply clicking on ‘Add new button’. Once you give all the details of the family members, the employee has to click on the link ‘Save family details’.
For the completion of EPF nomination, the system will ask for EPS nomination in case of (wife/son/daughter) is not available.

After saving all the EPF nomination details successfully, he/she can scroll down to the ‘Pending Nomination’ and will have to click on the ‘E-sign’ option. For Aadhar card based e-sign, providing virtual ID is mandatory. He/she can easily generate a virtual ID for his/her Aadhar card by visiting UIDAI official website.
After E – signing, the process of registering his/her E – Nomination with the EPFO is complete. There is no need to send any physical document to his employer or ex-employer.
After doing Aadhar based e-sign, they need to download a PDF copy of the nomination form No. 2 and have to save the file as ‘Employee Code, Name of member’. Every member needs to share a PDF copy of the form with the HR department of their company.