New Delhi, April 28 -- Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has simplified the process of transferring the claims by revamping the form 13 functionality while incorporating the bifurcation of taxable and non-taxable components of PF accumulations. With the changes in force, the provident fund transfer claim does not need to be processed again by the destination office after it gets approved at the source (previous) office.

I. The 3 level processing at the transferee office has been dispensed with.

II. Once the provident fund transfer claim gets approved at the source office i.e., transferor, the PF accumulation and pension service of the member pertaining to the previous account will automatically get added to the present accoun...