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The authorities has ratified 8.25% complaint of involvement connected employees' provident money (EPF) deposits for 2025-26, which is apt to beryllium credited to implicit 7 crore contributing members this month.
EPFO provides the complaint of involvement connected EPF aft it gets ratified by the authorities done the concern ministry.
The concern ministry has fixed its concurrence to 8.25% complaint of involvement fixed by Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the apex determination making assemblage of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), a root said connected Thursday (June 18, 2026).
Earlier connected March 2, the CBT successful a gathering chaired by the Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had decided to hole 8.25% complaint of involvement for the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26, marking the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth this complaint has been maintained.
Thereafter the connection was sent to the concern ministry for concurrence arsenic the guarantor of the EPF is the Government of India.
The root said that the concern ministry has approved the connection aft vetting it and the EPFO connected the absorption of the labour ministry is apt to recognition the 8.25% complaint of involvement for 2025-26 into subscribers' accounts this period only.
Under the caller ecosystem developed by the EPFO, the involvement connected the EPF volition beryllium credited into subscribers' accounts immediately, they added.
In February past year, the EPFO had retained the 8.25% complaint of involvement for 2024-25 fiscal year.
The EPFO, successful 2024, accrued the involvement complaint marginally to 8.25% for 2023-24, from 8.15% successful 2022-23.
In March 2022, EPFO lowered the involvement connected post-retirement deposits for 2021-22 to an implicit four-decade debased of 8.10% from 8.5% successful 2020-21.
The 8.10% complaint for 2020-21 was the lowest since 1977-78, erstwhile the complaint stood astatine 8%.
In March 2020, EPFO lowered the involvement complaint connected provident money deposits to a seven-year debased of 8.5% for 2019-20, from 8.65% provided for 2018-19.
EPFO provided an 8.65% involvement complaint to its subscribers successful 2016-17 and 8.55% successful 2017-18. The complaint of involvement was somewhat higher astatine 8.8% successful 2015-16.
The status money assemblage gave 8.75% complaint of involvement successful 2013-14 arsenic good arsenic 2014-15, higher than 8.5% for 2012-13.
The complaint of involvement was 8.25% successful 2011-12.
