With an “exceptionally excessive” variety of purposes for greater pension rejected, the Workers’ Provident Fund Organisation has now directed subject formations that rejections must be based mostly on “substantial and justifiable” causes and candidates should be given the possibility to justify minor deficiencies of their submissions.
The Ministry of Labour and employment has additionally mentioned that every one instances of rejections should be audited by a specialised group of chartered accountants empanelled below the Comptroller and Auditor Common of India. Additional, the EPFO additionally should deploy its personal audit groups to look at instances of rejection, particularly these which can be below litigation.
The strict directive from the EPFO comes after it has been inundated by a number of complaints about rejection of upper pension purposes. Sunkari Mallesham, Nationwide Vice President, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and a member of the Central Board of Trustees of the EPFO had additionally written to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner on the difficulty.
“There are a number of instances of arbitrary rejection of purposes. We had written to the CPFC highlighting this problem they usually have now taken motion,” he mentioned.
As an example, within the case of NTPC, which has a single exempted PF belief, whereas some purposes had been processed, others have been rejected, he famous. “Both all purposes must be processed or all must be rejected. It cannot be executed on an arbitrary foundation,” he underlined, including that there have been a number of such instances the place resulting from some deficiency, the purposes have been rejected. In some instances, employers are being requested to supply information the place because the EPFO because the custodian and repair supplier ought to have the report, he additional underlined.
The EPFO too underlined these points in its newest round. “Situations have come to the discover the place instances have been rejected or retruned despite the truth that the exempted PF Belief guidelines didn’t include any specific bar within the contribution to the EPS past the wage ceiling,” it mentioned. Additional, in different instances, interpretation of the time period “wages” has been executed incorrectly by increasing its scope past the definition offered below the scheme. “There are even references the place the method of verification has been transformed right into a probing train to look out for justification for rejection of claims,” the EPFO famous.
It additionally underlined that the aim of scrutiny of software must be to make sure that the figures based mostly on which the demand letters are issued are arithmetically right and correspond to the wages on which the PF and pension contribution was remitted.
The EPFO has in all obtained 17.49 lakh purposes for greater pension following the Supreme Courtroom ruling. Of this, 7.35 lakh ineligible instances and the non-amendment of guidelines by exempted institutions and PSUs.
