Making changes to your Employees' Provident Fund has become fairly simple with the processes now seamlessly handled online. Employees no longer have to visit Employees' Provident Fund Organization offices to make changes to their accounts or update nominees.
Steps To Add Nominee To EPF Account
Log on to the EPFO portal.
Log in with your credentials such as Universal Account Number, password and captcha.
Navigate to the Manage tab and click on E-nomination.
Click on Enter New Information.
A page will open with details about your account such as name, UAN, member ID, date of birth, establishment ID, etc. Click on Proceed.
Under the Family Declaration section, click on Yes to add a new nominee or update the existing nominee.
Here, enter the details of the nominee, including name, gender, date of birth, relationship with you, date of birth, address, bank account details, guardian (if nominee is a minor), and photo.
Click on Save Family Details.
If you want to add more nominees, click on Add Now and repeat the previous step.
Enter the share you want to allocate to each of the nominees and save the nomination.
Under the Pending Nomination section, you can check the list of nominees.
Click on e-Sign.
Enter your Aadhaar virtual ID and click on Verify.
Check the box to provide consent for e-KYC services.
Enter your Aadhaar virtual ID and click on Get OTP.
Enter the OTP sent to your Aadhaar-registered phone number.
Once the OTP verification is complete, the nominee(s) will be added to the EPF account.
To check your nominees, you can go to the Manage tab, click on E-nomination, and then click on Nomination History. It is important to note that EPF nominations are limited to parents, children, and spouses.
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