The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) saw a three-fold increase in provident fund withdrawal claims in the past three months through the government’s official mobile application, the government said on Monday.
The Union Labour and Employment Ministry said in a statement that the EPFO received 1.1 million claims between April and July 2020 through the UMANG mobile application – three times more than the nearly 397,000 applications received from December 2019 to March 2020.
The EPFO had on June 9 said that 3.6