EPFO ease up rules for submitting Jeevan Praman

As not everyone is well – versed with internet and has a secured internet connection, EPFO (Employees Provident Fund Organization) have made submitting life certificate easier.

EPFO have laid down provisions that will help pensioners to submit their life certificate smoothly as they can submit their Jeevan Pramaan Certificate in physical form. However, this facility will be provided to people who have recorded genuine reasons for non – submission of digital Jeevan Pramaan.

Also, in case a pensioner has already submitted their Jeevan Pramaan Certificate digitally, they are not required to do so again. And they would have the option of submitting the digital or paper based certificate to pension drawing bank branches.

As per the new conditions of EPFO, pensioners who have not submitted Jeevan Pramaan digitally even once can do so within this month in physical form.

To submit Jeevan Pramaan, one can visit EPFO offices, pension disbursing banks and common service centres.

Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners of Central government, State government, or any other Government organizations. Pensioners have to register themselves and then they can continue to generate Jeevan Pramaan by using the Biometric authentication. Jeevan Pramaan life certificate can produced digitally from the comfort of your home as it can be done online. However, the traditional life certificates can be produced only by the authorized Pension Disbursing Agencies (PDAs) / Pension Sanctioning Authorities (PSAs) like Banks, Post offices etc.

In India more than one crore families can be classified as pensioner’s families. And one of the major requisite for the pensioners is to provide life certificates to the authorized pension disbursing agencies like Banks, Post offices etc., following which their pension is credited to their account. It requires the pensioner to be physically present in front of the disbursing agency or getting a life certificate often becomes a major hurdle in the process of receiving the pension. Being physically present causes a lot of inconvenience to the pensioners because of their age and also people often choose to move to a different location for various reasons. Hence, digital life certificate for pensioners which is also known as Jeevan Pramaan address this problem by digitizing the whole process.

At present, nearly 48.48 Lakh pensioners have registered for Jeevan Pramaan. And after 1^st November 2016, nearly 31.24 Lakh pensioners have registered under Jeevan Pramaan life certificate.

This online enrollment and biometric authentication system will simplify the way pension payouts have been functioning in India. And as a part of Digital India initiative, the Jeevan Praman Scheme aims at sparing the pensioner from the trouble of visiting a PDA or PSA for the submission of life certificate.