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EPF: Good news for employees
The finance ministry has ratified the hike of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) interest rate to 8.65% as approved by retirement fund manager EPFO. The finance ministry’s approval is a procedural formality, but is a requirement before interest rates are passed on to 60 million EPFO subscribers.
“The Department of Financial Services has accepted the EPFO rate hike and given its concurrence for a higher interest payout,” a labour ministry official said requesting anonymity.
On 21 February, the central board of the EPFO had announced an increase in the EPF interest rate to 8.65% in 2018-19, paring its reserves to their lowest level in three years.
This was a 10 basis point increase from the 8.55% EPF interest rate announced by the retirement fund for 2017-18. It is the same as in 2016-17, but less than the 8.8% paid out in the previous years. One basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.
The EPFO manages a retirement corpus of around Rs. 11 trillion and it has an active subscriber base of 60 million.
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