{"id":679214,"date":"2026-09-08T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/679214\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:32:25","slug":"epfo-want-to-update-your-kyc-information-heres-how-members-can-do-it-online-using-official-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/679214\/","title":{"rendered":"EPFO: Want to update your KYC information? Here’s how members can do it online using official portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has made updating know-your-customer (KYC) information mandatory for all online PF claims, balance updates via passbook and other digital services.<\/p>\n

The EPF is a government-backed, secure, long-term investment <\/a>tool and retirement savings option for salaried individuals. The Ministry of Finance ratified 8.25% interest rate for EPF and voluntary PF (VPF) in FY26 for the third consecutive term.<\/p>\n

Today, we take a look at how EPF <\/a>members can update their KYC online using the retirement savings fund body’s official portal.<\/p>\n

EPFO: Want to update your KYC? Here’s how\u2026<\/p>\n

Notably, the EPFO has made KYC <\/a>mandatory for services such as withdrawal of funds, transfer of funds, and settlement claims. The process requires providing your Aadhaar number, PAN card, mobile number, and a bank account. While usually done by the employer, you can also complete the Aadhaar seeding using the Umang app or the EPFO’s official portal.<\/p>\n

You can update your KYC on the EPFO portal with the following steps:<\/p>\n

Complete e-Nomination process after KYC<\/p>\n

Another mandatory process for your EPF account is naming your nominees<\/a>. Notably, nomination for your EPFO account can only be completed on the portal after your KYC has been processed. Here’s how to complete this step:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has made updating know-your-customer (KYC) information mandatory for all online PF claims,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[2472,79,18,251562,83098,3559,19,17,78929,287403,825,7219,234,235,7291,78925],"class_list":["post-679214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-app","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ekyc","tag-epf-account","tag-epfo","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kyc","tag-kyc-update","tag-money","tag-online","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-portal","tag-umang"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117237562915247922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}