EPFO Online Life Certificate: Earlier, pensioners had to work hard every year to submit their life certificate, but to eliminate this difficulty, EPFO has provided a special facility to pensioners.
PF New Service: 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 Digital Life Certificate (DLC), 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, but every year the life certificate is submitted sitting at home.
Number of users is increasing continuously
The number of pensioners using this service of EPFO is increasing continuously. 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 jump in it on an annual basis.
Relief from the hassle of visiting offices
Digital Life Certificate has provided this great facility to pensioners and has eliminated the hassle of visiting offices earlier to submit life certificate. This important work can now be done sitting at home with the help of Face Authentication Technology (FAT). Due to the problems faced by pensioners in submitting life certificate and the constant complaints received, EPFO had provided DLC service for its pensioners in the year 2015.
FAT facility in the year 2022
Due to the problems faced by elderly pensioners, MeitY and UIDAI have developed Face Authentication Technology (FAT) in the year 2022. With its help, pensioners can submit life certificates with the help of their smartphones sitting at home. In this, the pensioner is identified instantly with the scan of the face. Actually, UIDAI does the work of identification of Aadhaar database using UIDAI face recognition app. Its process is also easy.
Use of service is very easy
To use Facial Authentication Technology, Aadhaar Face RD and ‘Jeevan Pramaan’ app has to be installed in the smartphone. After this, face scan is done on the basis of the given guidelines. After the scanning is completed, the DLC submission is confirmed on the mobile screen along with Jeevan Pramaan ID and PPO number and this work is done sitting at home.
