Politics · India · 8 hrs ago
EPFO pensioners can submit life certificates by phone during November campaign
The EPFO is taking part in a nationwide digital life certificate campaign from November 1 to 30.
It is aimed at retired employees and beneficiaries of the Employees’ Pension Scheme, including pensioners in the Agra region.
Pensioners can use a smartphone and face authentication to submit certificates from home.
A life certificate is needed to help keep pension payments going.
The digital process could particularly help older or unwell pensioners and people who live in another city, as they will not need to make repeated trips to an office.
EPFO officials will inform local pensioners about how to use the digital service.
The campaign runs through November 30, and the stated aim is to make certificate submission easier so pensions can continue without interruption.
EPFO will run a nationwide digital life certificate campaign from November 1 to 30, 2026.
Pensioners can submit digital life certificates from home using a smartphone and face authentication.
The campaign is intended to make submission easier, especially for elderly, unwell and out-of-town pensioners.
EPFO’s Agra regional office will inform local pensioners about the digital options.
A separate railway pensioner camp programme is planned at 13 locations in the Jaipur division from November 2 to 23.
- Who
- EPFO pensioners, including retired employees and beneficiaries of the Employees’ Pension Scheme.
- What
- A nationwide campaign will promote digital life certificate submission using smartphones and face authentication.
- When
- November 1 to 30, 2026. Railway pensioner camps in the Jaipur division are scheduled for November 2 to 23.
- Where
- Nationwide; the Agra regional office will inform local pensioners, and railway camps will be held at 13 locations in the Jaipur division.
- Why
- To make life certificate submission easier and help pensioners continue receiving their pensions without interruption.
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EPFO implemented the Centralised Pension Payment System, allowing pensioners to receive their pension at any bank branch in the country.
The nationwide digital life certificate campaign is scheduled to begin.
Digital life certificate camps for railway pensioners are scheduled to begin at locations in the Jaipur division.
The Jaipur division camps are scheduled to end.
The nationwide digital life certificate campaign is scheduled to end.
- Campaign dates
- November 1–30, 2026
- Submission method
- Smartphone and face authentication
- Jaipur division camps
- 13 locations
- Jaipur division camp dates
- November 2–23
- Pension payment system
- Centralised Pension Payment System implemented January 1, 2025
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The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation is also participating in this campaign organised by the central government’s Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare.