UAN Unified Portal for EPF Members / Employees

EPFO has recently launched a new portal for EPF called unifiedPortal. This portal for members / employees was launched in Dec, 2016 and after few weeks of down time, it has now started working fine. We used the 'Download Passbook' feature on 20th January 2017 to check the current EPF balance, and the unifiedportal worked just fine. Here is a detailed guide on unified portal and its features.

Why a new Unified EPF Portal?

EPFO has been working to improve its digital footprint and online services revamp has been a crucial part of that effort. As part of changes introduced in Dec 2016 and Jan 2017:

Ideally it would have been better to improve and update the old UAN portal itself, but EPFO IT services has instead created a new portal itself called unified portal (or unifiedportal).

EPF UnifiedPortal - Login

Open the EPFO unifiedportal website - https://unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface/. The first thing you will notice on opening the Unified Portal is its clean interface.

To UAN Login into the unified portal, enter your UAN and password. You can use the same password that you used earlier for login into the old UAN Member Portal. If the old password in not working for some reasons, you can click on the 'Forgot Password' link and change password. If you keep trying a password that isn't working, your account will be locked. If that happens, you can click on 'Unlock Account'. The page will ask you to enter your UAN and a captcha. You will get a authorization pin on your mobile which you will have to enter to unlock the account.

After password, you need to enter the captcha and then click on 'Sign in'. You will see your home page with your UAN and name displayed on the top right corner.

UAN Unified Portal - Home Page Features

Once you login and enter your home page you will see three main sections highlighted on the page - 'View Passbook', 'UAN Card' and 'Account Settings'. Clicking on 'more info' will take you to the appropriate page. On the right side you will see your full profile - UAN, name, birth date, mobile number and email.

This new unified portal has limited features as of now. We are expecting that EPFO will add more features in the coming months. On epf unified portal you have right now only 5 main features -

EPFO UnifiedPortal - Glitches and Errors

We see occasional errors on the portal, for example

"[object Object] parsererrorSyntaxError: Unexpected token & in JSON at position 3"

503 Service Unavailable - No server is available to handle this request.

Service Unavailable - Please try again later.

Unified portal error - Details of previous account are different than present account

While doing online epf transfer on unified portal, sometimes people get following error:

Details of previous account are different than present account. Hence claim request cannot be processed

This happens due to differences in personal details like date of birth. One need to contact local epfo office and give application to get it corrected. or one can email employeefeedback@epfindia.gov.in to get help.

Unified portal error - claim is not submitted on portal. Plz try again later

While submitting online form 19, sometimes user see this error:

Claim is not submitted on portal. Plz try again later.

This is due to technical problem with the portal. Known solution is to try again after 1 or 2 days.

Unified portal error: Aadhaar authentication failed

While linking Aadhaar with EPF, many times we see following error:

Aadhaar authentication failed

This is due to technical problem with communication between unified portal and Aadhaar system. Known solution is to try again after 1 or 2 days.

News on EPF UnifiedPortal

Paperless EPF by next year

EPFO has decided to become completely digital and paperless by Aug 2018. This will boost its services and make withdrawal and pension simpler.

6th Sep 2017

Passbook new site

Currently passbook functionality is not available at UAN portal. One needs to go to [https://passbook.epfindia.gov.in/MemberPassBook/Login.jsp](https://passbook.epfindia.gov.in/MemberPassBook/Login.jsp) to get their passbook.

23rd Jun 2017

8.65% interest rate on EPF for 2016-2017

Finance ministry has declared an interest of 8.65% for EPF for the duration of Apr 1, 2016 to Mar 31st 2017. Lately finance ministry was trying to convince EPFO to reduce the rate, but finanlly let the december decided rate of 8.65% to continue.

15th April 2017

Unified Portal Remains Down as of Mar 14th, 2017

Due to technical problems, Unified portal for members remains down most of the time as of March 14, 2017. EPFO technical team is aware of this and working hard to resolve this.

14th March 2017

EPF Withdrawal process got simplified with 1 page form

EPF Withdrawal process got simplified with 1 page form called CCF form or Composite Claim form. If your EPF account is UAN activated and have Aadhaar linked, you don't even need employer's attestation. Really good news for EPF members.

1st March 2017

Link Aadhar Number on EPF Unified Portal

EPFO has made it mandatory to link Aadhar Card with UAN number for all the members and pensioners. You can link your Aadhaar number online on the new UAN Unified Portal in the KYC section. If you don't have a Aadhar number yet, it is recommended to get one soon. EPFO is planning to develop facility on UAN Portal for registering of request by members/pensioners for enrolment of Aadhar.

27th January 2017

EPFO Unified Portal is up!

EPFO had launched the Unified Portal in Dec, 2016 but it was not working properly and throwing errors in the initial days after launch. People faced a lot of difficulty in using the Unified Portal as it was mostly down. Good news is that the EPF Unified Portal is finally working fine now after about 3 weeks of glitches and errors. Cheers!

21st January 2017
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