How to Link UAN with Aadhaar: Link UAN with an Aadhar card is mandatory which you can accomplish on your own provided you know its modus operandi. But let’s get acquainted ourselves with the actual significance of Aadhaar before learning how to Link UAN with Aadhar.
What is the UAN?
UAN is the Universal Account Number authenticating multiple IDs of a government servant allotted by Employee’s Provident Fund Organization (EPFO). As the acronym reveals itself the UAN serves as a universal account number representing several accounts and ever since Aadhaar card has been constituted as law linking the UAN with Aadhaar has become mandatory and transparently shows welfare services and all the economical status of an individual government employee. So being a government servant you have been allotted UAN then you should contemplate on learning how to link UAN with your Aadhar card of yours.
How to Activate UAN?
You can do so either by EPFO-provided UAN or Aadhaar card. But let’s have a look at the EPFO-provided UAN procedure. To activate UAN (universal account number) as an individual employee you should have with you allotted UAN, provident fund details, and the mobile number registered with the EPF account. It is necessary to underline that UAN is allotted by the employer which you are required to act on the official website of EPFO (Employer’s Provident Funds Organization) taking the following steps:
- Receive UAN (universal account number) and User ID from your employer/owner
- Visit the official website of UAN-EPFO or click on here.
- Enter allotted UAN and your user ID, name, the mobile number registered with UAN and EPF account details, and click on “Get PIN”. You will receive the PIN delivered on your mobile number
- Enter the PIN and click on submit
- Create a new user ID and a password/PIN to finally activate your UAN.
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The motive of introducing UAN is to maintain continuity of provident funds withdrawals/transfers without dependency on the employer. A member registered with UAN gets the freedom of withdrawing funds on his/her own and even closing the account without getting a parasite from the employer. This is the great service introduced under the aegis of EPFO (employer’s provident fund’s organization).
How to Link UAN with Aadhaar?
After activating the newly allotted UAN with the EPFO’s user ID you can easily link the activated universal account number of yours taking the following steps, being mentioned over here.
- Visit the official website of EPFO (employers’ provident fund’s organization) which works under the Ministry of Labor and Employment in India. You can reach on the targeted page by clicking on a link here
- Enter EAN in the box
- Enter mobile number, registered with UAN
- Click on ‘generate OTP’. It would be delivered on the registered mobile number
- Enter the OTP in the box
- Select the gender out of Male or Female
- Enter your Aadhaar number
- Choose the verification option from ‘Using Mobile/Email based OTP’ or ‘Using Biometric’. If you select the ‘using biometric’ option then you will have to adopt any of the authentication processes by clicking on here
- Click on Submit
To link UAN with Aadhaar it’d be better you can directly visit the official website of EPFO and accomplish the desired process.
Using UMANG app
With the support of the UMANG app, one can get a chance to link UAN with an Aadhar card. All you need to download is the UMANG app by visiting the stores. Before getting into the process, keep in mind that you must be a registered user when it comes to linking UAN with an Aadhar card.
- First of all, choose the option “EPFO” which is available under the tab “All services”.
- By following the option “EPFO”, make sure to choose “eKYC services”. Now, choose the option “Aadhar seeding” which is under eKYC.
- Now, enter UAN and proceed further to choose “Get OTP”.
- Your mobile number should be connected with EPFO will receive an OTP.
- Once the verification process is done, it is necessary for you to enter the Aadhar details.
- OTP will be sent to Aadhar registered mobile as well as email.
- If the OTP verification process is over, then the Aadhar will be mainly linked to UAN, where you can see that the details of Aadhar and UAN are matched.
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