EPFO: Want to make changes in your profile online? Fill joint declaration form. A step-by-step guide
If there are changes with regards to name, address or other details that you want to introduce in your EPF account, then you carry out the change by filling out the joint declaration form online. This is known as ‘joint’ because it is combined that the employee and employer sign in order to incorporate changes.
A joint declaration form is an Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) form used to correct Provident Fund (PF) member details. It is a combined form that the employee and employer sign and submit to the regional PF commissioner to update the wrong information entered in the employees' PF accounts
In order to make changes in any of the 11 parameters, you can use the joint declaration form. These parameters are name, gender, DOB, mother father name, relationship, marital status, joining date, leaving date, reason for leaving, nationality and aadhaar number i.e., Unique Identification Number (UID).
1. Visit the EPFO website: epfoindia.gov.in.
2. Go to services. As you scroll down the options, click the one for 'For Employees'.
3. As you click this option, a new webpage opens: https://www.epfindia.gov.in/site_en/For_Employees.php
4. On this webpage, go to services section and choose the second option: Member UAN/ online Service.
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5. As you choose this option, a new webpage opens which is a member interface.
6. In order to access the services, one has to enter UAN, password and captcha.
7 Now you are supposed to choose the option 'Manage' on the top ribbon.
8. As you choose the drop-down option, there is an option of 'joint declaration'.
9. Now enter the member ID to access the details.
10. It's here that you can upload the documents to
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