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EPFO Campaign Offers PF Coverage to Previously Excluded Workers
The government has started a special campaign to help some workers receive provident fund benefits.
It is for people who should have been covered between April 1, 2009, and March 31, 2026, but were left out.
The worker must still be employed by the same establishment when the employer applies.
The worker must also be alive.
Former employees cannot use the campaign to claim coverage after leaving their job.
Employers must check their old employment and wage records.
They must register eligible workers online and pay the required contributions.
If a worker’s share was never taken from their wages, that share may be waived under the campaign rules.
Employees should ask their employer or HR team whether the enrolment process has started before October 31, 2026.
The Employees’ Enrolment Campaign 2026 covers eligible workers left outside PF between April 1, 2009, and March 31, 2026.
The one-time campaign remains open until October 31, 2026.
Workers must be alive and still employed by the establishment when the employer makes the declaration.
Employees may qualify for a waiver of their PF contribution if it was not previously deducted from their wages.
Employers must register workers through face-authenticated UAN generation on UMANG and remit contributions through the ECR platform.
- Who
- Eligible salaried workers who were left outside EPF coverage, along with their employers and the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation.
- What
- The Employees’ Enrolment Campaign 2026 provides a one-time process to regularise past PF coverage gaps.
- Where
- Through the designated online portal, including UMANG for face-authenticated UAN generation and the ECR platform for contributions.
- When
- The relevant employment period is April 1, 2009, to March 31, 2026; the campaign closes on October 31, 2026.
- Why
- To encourage voluntary employer compliance and extend provident fund, pension, and insurance benefits to eligible workers.
Key facts
- Campaign
- Employees’ Enrolment Campaign 2026
- Application deadline
- October 31, 2026
- Covered employment period
- April 1, 2009, to March 31, 2026
- Worker requirement
- The employee must be alive and still employed with the establishment when the employer declares them.
- Contribution relief
- The employee’s PF share may be waived if it was not previously deducted from wages, subject to campaign conditions.
- Registration process
- Employers must generate a face authentication-based Universal Account Number through the UMANG mobile application and remit contributions through the Electronic Challan-cum-Return platform.
Quotes
Ministry of Labour & Employment
India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment, which issued the press release about the campaign
“The campaign provides specified relaxations to facilitate regularisation of past compliance, including waiver of the employee's share where it was not deducted earlier, subject to the conditions of the campaign.”
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