EPFO receives 15.24 lakh higher pension applications; 11,595 pending

In India, many workers save money for their retirement through a special fund.

Some of these workers wanted to receive a bigger pension after they retired.

A top court said they could, if they had paid extra money into the fund based on their full salary.

More than 15 lakh people — over one and a half million workers — sent in forms to ask for the bigger pension.

The office that runs the fund, called EPFO, is checking all of these forms.

It has already checked most of them, but more than 11,000 forms are still waiting to be processed.

The most applications came from the state of Telangana, with over 1.6 lakh forms.

In some places, like Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, the most forms are still pending.

The government says it is working as fast as it can to finish checking every form.