EPFO's gift to senior pensioners, now you can get life certificate sitting at home, take advantage of it like this

EPFO's gift to elderly pensioners: The Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has made several changes in the rules, giving relief to its more than 78 lakh pensioners. One of these facilities is the digital life certificate, which has made the pension process very easy.

Actually, EPFO ​​accepts biometric based DLC. For this, the pensioner does not have to visit any bank, post office or common service center, rather the life certificate is submitted every year sitting at home.

EPFO's gift to senior pensioners

The number of pensioners using this service of EPFO ​​is continuously increasing. If we look at the data shared by PIB on June 8, the number of pensioners submitting DLC ​​based on facial authentication technology was 2.1 lakh in the financial year 2022-23, which increased rapidly to 6.6 lakh in the financial year 2023-24. That is, there has been a three-fold increase in it on an annual basis.

Freedom from running around EPFO ​​offices

Digital Life Certificate has given this great convenience to the pensioners and has eliminated the hassle of visiting offices earlier to submit Life Certificate. With the help of Face Authentication Technology (FAT), this important work can now be done from home.

Due to the problems faced by pensioners in submitting life certificate and the continuous complaints, EPFO ​​​​had made available DLC service for its pensioners in the year 2015.

EPFO's gift to senior pensioners - Life certificate will be made with the help of FAT

Due to the problems faced by elderly pensioners, MeitY and UIDAI have developed Face Authentication Technology (FAT) in the year 2022. With the help of this, EPFO ​​pensioners can submit Jeevan Pramaan Patra from their homes with the help of their smartphones.

In this, the pensioner is identified instantly by facial scan. Actually, UIDAI does the work of identification of Aadhaar database by using UIDAI face recognition app. Its process is also easy.

EPFO's services are easy to use

To use facial authentication technology, Aadhaar Face RD and 'Jeevan Pramaan' app has to be installed in the smartphone. After this, the face scan is done as per the instructions given.

After the scanning is completed, the DLC submission is confirmed on the mobile screen with Jeevan Pramaan ID and EPFO ​​PPO number and the work is done sitting at home.