EPFO joins network of Common Services Centers

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has joined the vast network of over 2 lakh common services centers to widen its reach.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between retirement fund body EPFO and CSC e-Governance Services India (CSC SPV). The MoU is initially for a period of five years.
The CSC network is one of the largest government approved online service delivery channel in the world. There are about 2 lakh CSCs in the country.
"To start with, the pensioners of Employees Pension Scheme of EPFO can submit their digital life certificates via JeevanPramaanPatraprogramme through a large number of points of Presence (PoP) of CSC networkin addition to those available at EPFO offices," EPFO said in a statement.

The pensioners living in remote areas can avoid cost and inconvenience of travelling down to the EPF offices or their banks for filing paper based life certificate.
"In near future, it is also planned to enable various other online services namely Aadhaar seeding with Universal Account Number (UAN), e KYC operated upload and update facility, UAN card related services and online claim related services," it said.
CSC are broadband enabled rural service delivery points established by District eGovernance Societies (DeGSs), selected by the state governments, for aggregating content and offering relevant Government to Customers (G2C), Business to Customers (B2C), Business to Business (B2B) and other services.