If you are a private-sector employee, a portion of your monthly salary is regularly contributed to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF). Your employer also makes an equal contribution, helping you ...

India is reworking the architecture of social security. The labour codes are edging closer to implementation, with draft rules under public consultation, severa ...

Before you tap into your EPF balance, understand what you can withdraw, when you can withdraw it, and how unemployment rules actually work.

Under current rules, EPF contributions are mandatory only for employees earning up to Rs 15,000 per month — known as the wage ...

The Union Budget 2026 has maintained the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) wage ceiling at Rs 15,000, a limit unchanged since 2014. Experts highlight that an increase would have significantly boosted ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has maintained the standard deduction at Rs 75,000 for salaried individuals and pensioners under the new tax regime in Budget 2026. This deduction, available ...

Lucknow: The Indian Society for Training and Development on Friday held a training and awareness campaign on the recent changes in the EPF scheme. Reg.

The pension corpus is built from two primary sources: an employer contribution of 8.33 per cent of wages and a 1.16 per cent ...

EPS-95 pensioners have been long demanding that the minimum monthly pension be raised from Rs 1,000 to Rs 7,500. Arguing that ...

India’s rising gig workforce faces a social security gap; Budget 2026 may expand protections through the National Social Security Fund for inclusivity.

As long as the yearly contribution level is not surpassed, active EPF accounts continue to collect interest in a ...

The Modi government has reiterated in Parliament that there is no immediate plan to raise the minimum EPS-95 pension from Rs ...