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EPFO lowers interest rate on deposits to 8.5% for FY20

06 Mar 2020 Evaluate

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), which has nearly 6 crore users, has lowered the interest rate on deposits to a seven-year low of 8.5 percent for the current financial year (FY20). That marked a cut of 15 basis points - or 0.15 percentage point - from the interest rate of 8.65 percent paid on EPF investments for FY19.

Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar said that the EPFO will have a surplus of over Rs 700 crore on providing 8.5 percent rate of interest on EPF for this fiscal. The EPFO would have left with a surplus of over Rs 300 crore if it had provided 8.55 percent rate of interest on EPF for this fiscal. There would have been a deficit if the EPFO had provided a rate of more than 8.55 percent for current fiscal. The EPF interest rate announced for the current fiscal is lowest since 2012-13, when it was 8.5 percent. The EPFO had provided 8.65 percent interest rate to its subscribers for 2016-17 and 8.55 percent in 2017-18. The rate of interest was slightly higher at 8.8 percent in 2015-16. It had given 8.75 percent rate of interest in 2013-14 as well as 2014-15, higher than 8.5 per cent for 2012-13.

Now, the labour ministry requires the finance ministry's concurrence on the matter. Since the government of India is the guarantor, the finance ministry has to vet the proposal for EPF interest rate to avoid any liability on account of shortfall in the EPFO income for a fiscal. The finance ministry has been nudging the labour ministry for aligning the EPF interest rate with other small saving schemes run by the government like the public provident fund and post office saving schemes.

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