EPF KYC Online to Update UAN KYC at Unified Member Portal

Update your EPF KYC for UAN in online and access free for your EPF withdrawal. Check required document details to upload UAN KYC. Find how to complete EPF KYC offline with KYC form and format, What is the link to register EPFO UAN KYC…

EPF KYC

The Employee Provident Fund can be accessed via the online Member e-SEWA portal unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface and also via the mobile application, where all the salaried employees who have been enrolled in this scheme can check their UAN number from their given salary slips to know their 12 digits Universal Account Number.

You need to complete your KYC for the EPFO portal online or offline by visiting the field office, in order to be eligible for EPF withdrawal partially or fully, and this might sound very similar to Aadhaar or PayTM KYC terms is generally used, and basically, this is the same as well.

The Employee Provident Fund organization has released a new act an amendment stating that all the EPF employees with active UAN Number must complete their UAN KYC to access the benefits from their portal.

The reason this has become mandatory is only through complete KYC update your account will become eligible to release any form of Employees Provident Fund money, and this is necessary because anyone would have been able to access your account just via your UAN number but linking government verifications has made a difference here.

What does UAN KYC Mean?

If you are new to the term KYC, then it means Know Your Customer which is a very custom processed that has become mandated by the banks across India, and in this any service or organization should make sure that each and every employee or account is linked to their required government ID proofs such as Aadhaar, PAN and passport.

Most of the times it is enough to link Aadhaar but in case of EPF UAN KYC it is very much necessary to provide them with all the required and additional government proofs that you can get.

1. Limit Removal : Once you have updated your Aadhaar and PAN card details, then you can use your account to check the PF balance and money withdrawal as well.
2. PF Withdrawal : Adding your bank account is necessary part of the KYC here because you will need the account while withdrawing the money from your PF balance in future.
3. Security: Adding extra resources like Aadhaar and PAN is necessary but adding Bank account gives you more security. It is because you need to enter last four digits of your bank account while withdrawing your PF money.

It might sound a little different than any other KYC documentation or verification process because this is a part of EPF UAN number, but to be frank, this is quite the same as any other KYC verification and you would take no more than some time to get this completed.

UAN KYC Process

let me walk you through the basic steps here in order to help you complete your UAN KYC process as mentioned

1. Go to browser and open unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface
2. Provide UAN login credentials for account login to head towards the tabs
3. Click on KYC to open in a new page related to KYC documentation process
4. Enter Bank Account Number, PAN Card Number, Aadhaar Card Number
5. Click on the checkbox on the three documents under “Select”
6. Click on Save
7. It will now save all your added information and newly updated KYC documentation details to update UAN KYC.

EPF KYC Documentation

During the process we can see that there are other documents asked during KYC of UAN. But those are not mandatory to be filled. You can feel free to fill those out anytime you like by following the same instructions as above.

KYC Document	Priority
Bank Account Number	Mandatory
PAN	Mandatory
Aadhaar	Mandatory
Passport	Not Mandatory
Driving License	Not Mandatory
Election Card (Voter ID)	Not Mandatory
Ration Card	Not Mandatory
National Population Register	Not Mandatory

Note: Make sure that your name on the UAN account matches the PAN and Aadhaar card as well. If it does not match then request you to apply for name correction and then follow this guide again.

UAN KYC Pending for Approval

We now filled out all the require KYC documentation which brings this to an end. But now in the left column you will see a new message “KYC pending for approval”. This message may shown for all the newly added KYC documents such as Bank account, PAN and Aadhaar as well.

The reason, this message shown, because the documents submitted right now are under pending status and not confirmed.

This information may approve by your current employer and then it will change the status to approved. This will take around 10 to 12 days for the documents for approval. In some cases, you can reach out to the HR department of your employer. So, you can directly ask them to initiate the approval process.

I would advise you to contact your HR department only after 10 days of documents uploading to UAN KYC. Basically, once the UAN KYC documentation completed, then you would be thoroughly eligible to access the different benefits like EPF money withdrawal being the main one.