Overview

• From August 13, EPFO circular authorises direct employer seeding of Aadhaar to UAN when name, date of birth and gender match.
• An online Joint Declaration form and in-office submission at regional PRO counters for closed firms now correct mismatches or replace wrongly linked Aadhaar IDs.
• UMANG app face-authentication and OTP methods provide a free, remote route for members to link Aadhaar with their UAN without visiting EPFO offices.
• The Employment-Linked Incentive scheme active since August 1 offers first-time employees up to Rs 15,000 in two instalments after completing financial-literacy training and pays employers up to Rs 3,000 per hire per month when gross wages are reported accurately in the ECR.
• Initial data suggest 45% of profile corrections now self-approve, trimming roughly 28 days from previous processing times.