{"id":2097,"date":"2018-03-11T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T08:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antworksmoney.com\/blog\/?page_id=2097"},"modified":"2019-10-09T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:28:14","slug":"check-epf-balance-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antworksmoney.com\/blog\/check-epf-balance-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check your EPF Balance through SMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Employee Provident Fund (EPF)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is administered and run by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) of India. A company, organization or establishment with 20 and more employees or workers who are working in any of the 180 industries, enlisted by the EPFO are eligible for EPF and hence should register themselves for the same.<\/p>\n

Benefits of EPF SMS Services<\/h2>\n

SMS is generally a one-to-one communication medium which is less time to consume compared to other means of instant information delivery. In other words, it delivers the message straight into the hands of the intended user. SMS is a widely used tool for B2C communications, and at the same time it is also one of the most preferred channels of attending user requests by various organizations such as financial institutions and governmental bodies. The SMS service launched by EPFO exemplifies the same.<\/p>\n

SMS Service of EPFO<\/h2>\n

To enhance the convenience of their subscribers, the EPFO has rolled out the\u00a0SMS facility<\/strong>\u00a0to carry out few basic EPF processes. Once such process that can be carried out through the SMS facility is checking their PF balance in one\u2019s account. All that the employee needs to do is use his\/her UAN registered mobile number and SMS their details in the following format – EPFOHO UAN ENG – to 7738299899. ENG stands for English. Since employees can use the SMS facility in 10 different languages – English, Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Bengali. Listed below are the language codes that the customer is required to use in the SMS format when carrying out the request for PF balance.<\/p>\n

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Table 1. List of Language Code to Request PF Balance<\/caption>\n
Language<\/strong><\/th>\nCode<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
English<\/td>\nENG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bengali<\/td>\nBEN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hindi<\/td>\nHIN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marathi<\/td>\nMAR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gujarati<\/td>\nGUJ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Malayalam<\/td>\nMAL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Punjabi<\/td>\nPUN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telugu<\/td>\nTEL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tamil<\/td>\nTAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Punjabi<\/td>\nPUN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Once the details have be messaged using the above-mentioned codes to 7738299899, the subscriber will receive the following details in the following format:<\/p>\n