Many of us not aware the importance of EPF Nomination. If you not took it seriously, then better to understand the EPF Nomination rules at first. Then check nomination details and if changes required, then better to do the changes as and when it is required.
What are the EPF Nomination rules? How often can we change the nominee? Let us understand these basics in detail.
# Your all EPF accounts must have the nomination. This makes easy fund transfer in case of your sudden demise.
# You can nominate more than one nominee and also fix the % of sharing among all such nominees.
# You must always nominate someone who can be considered as a family member. A non-family nominee is not valid.
# If you have no family, then you can nominate someone. However, once the member has a family the nomination should be transferred to the family member.
# If you nominated someone before marriage, then post marriage you have to update your spouse as a nominee. If you do not update then the nominations made before the marriage will be considered invalid. It is necessary to file new nominations, post marriage.
# In case a minor is a nominee, the guardian should be the family member. However, if there is no family member to become a guardian, then the employee can appoint a guardian from outside family.
# If there is no nomination the EPF amount would be equally distributed among family members. The sons who have attained maturity, sons of a deceased son who have attained maturity, married daughters whose husbands are alive and married daughters of a deceased son whose husbands are alive are not considered for such distribution.
# You can change the nomination as many times as you wish.
What are the rights of the nominee in EPF? Whether the nominee will be the natural owner of the fund after the death of an employee? The answer is NO.
Nominee here acts just like a trustee. He has the rights to receive the EPF funds of the deceased employee. However, he has no rights to claim the ownership of the fund. The EPF fund should be then distributed to legal heirs of the employee as per the legal heir’s law.
This is the reason it is always best that EPF nomination should be your legal heir itself. Otherwise, you will create a legal tussle with your family in your absence.
Using the EPFO Unified portal, you can check the EPF Nomination details online. The process is simple.
# Login to Unified Portal.
# Under Manage Tab, you have to select the option e-Nomination.
# Once you click there, then you will find the nomination details linked to EPF accounts.
# Visit Unified Portal. Login with your user credentials.
# Under “Manage” menu, you have to select “E-Nomination” option.
# Your details like UAN, Name, Date of Birth, gender etc., will be displayed. Here you have to provide your ‘Permanent Address’ details in the relevant field and click on Save button.
# Provide ‘yes’ to update Family Declaration. Then you will be asked to provide ‘Add Family Member(s)’ details. You have to provide details of your family members like their names, date of birth, relation and Address.
# Now you have to nominate your family members for your EPF account. You may declare the total amount of share (%) among your nominees. In case, you would like to nominate only one member of your family as your nominee then you can declare 100% as the share.
# Then click on ‘Save EPF Nomination’ button.
# Now you have to approve your e-Nomination form through Aadhaar e-Sign (Sign is an online electronic signature service in India to facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a document. The signature service is facilitated by authenticating the Aadhar holder via the Aadhar–based e-KYC (electronic Know Your Customer) service.) facility. Click on e-Sign button to generate OTP, which will be sent to your mobile number that is linked to your Aadhaar. Then enter the OTP, which you have received in your mobile phone. That’s it. You have completed the process of e-Nomination. You no need to send any physical document to your employer or ex-employer.
# However, if your Aadhaar is not linked to EPF, then you will get an error message as “AADHAAR authentication failed. Details available against this UAN are not matching with details available with UIDAI.” (Refer the post on how to link Aadhaar with EPF “How to link Aadhaar to EPF using online and offline?“.
Hope this much information is enough for all employees to know about the importance of EPF Nomination and how one can update it online.
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Hi, my father is an earning member and mother is housewife. In family, can I add my father as "dependent father" in epfo portal? I want to add both my mother and father's name for nomination. what to do in this case?
Dear Srishti,
You can add both by sharing the % for each of them.
but my father is working, will it be ok if i add him as "dependent father" ?
Dear Srishti,
Yes.
e nomination filled but no digital sign is updated but the employees got demised recently, can the nominee update and claim the money.
Dear Job,
Approval is mandatory.
I am applying pension for my mother. Claim got rejected stating that status is married but husband name is not there is family details (as I have nominated myself with 100% share).
My father died few years back. I have now updated the status as widow/widower. Is it ok or anything else is required?
Dear Snehil,
Can you elaborate more?
Sir I'm trying to add e-nominee details of my mother, once I'mcomplet fields and click save details, but I'm getting the error everytime
Error Code: E-19 Error: Input values/Database fields are not matched
what is the solution....
please...
I got the same error, Please let me know how to fix that
facing same issue
Dear Raja,
It may be due to some technical issues. Better to wait.
Sir i just tried add my mother as my epf nominee, in her adharcard there is only year of birth. And when i try to add her its not working. Do i need to update her adharcard date of birth details.
Dear Survesh,
Better to update.
I have changed nominee as my husband in epf, but in the pdf it says that my father/ mother are dependent on me. Can you please help me on this
Dear Nida,
Wait for their data to update.
How should I change 100% nomination .
Before marriage i nominated my father 100% my pf
Now i wanna change that nomination with my wife
Is that possible
Dear Jaydeep,
Yes possible. Follow the above post.
Is there a way to check if offline nomination had been done in EPF account? The nomination of the spouse had been given when joining the new company.
Now unfortunately the member had passed away but there is no e-Nomination seen in EPF login. So how can we check if the nomination given offline to employer had been completed or not?
Dear Lincy,
Approach the regional EPFO.
Hi Sir, in UAN site, under e-nomination page, we have the first option like Have Family? Yes/No. I given Yes, but site was not responded many times and later I saw that by mistake it was updated as "No". So now in my nomination page, for Have Family? - No. It should be changed to Yes. I tried all possibilities and nothing is working. Even I tried with "contact Us" same site issue. Pls help on this
Dear Anjuman,
It is a technical glitch may be. Better you try to update it through your employer.
Sir can I add 2 nominees father and mother both 100% 100% can I add???
Pls reply
Dear Sujeet,
How can two nominees share each 100%??