Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation EPFO : Online Transfer Claim Portal OTCP Registration of Digital Signatures

Organisation :EPFO Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation
Facility : Online Transfer Claim Portal OTCP Registration of Digital Signatures

Home Page :http://www.epfindia.com/site_en/OTCP_ForEmployers.php
OTCP here:https://employerclaims.epfoservices.in/

Online Transfer Claim Portal :

EPFO introduces a new system to facilitate online submission of transfer claims by Members with an objective to make the transfer process transparent, efficient and comfortable for your employees.

Related : EPFO Online ECR/ Challan Submission : www.statusin.in/1717.html

You are urged to bring this facility to the notice of all your employees which is available on EPFO’s Member portal. A member has an option to submit his claim either through his present employer or the previous one.
You can see all such claim requests with ease, verify/correct member details, approve and submit the requests online through this portal. For online submission of the claims, the Digital signature (Class II or above) of the authorized person is required

Highlights :
** View transfer requests from Members.
** Verify details from your records.
** Approve information using digital signature.
** An Additional feature to complement existing paper claim process.
** Multiple authorised signatories can use the facility to verify and approve claim requests.

Detailed Instructions :
** Process Flow for registration of Digital Signature Certificate.
** Process Flow for attestation of an Online Claim using Digital Signature
** Process flow for verification of member details in respect of claims submitted by ex-employees through his present employer.

Important Guidelines for Employers :
I. Attestation of claims submitted through online mode :
(a) The EPF members have been given a facility to submit the transfer claims through online mode to the EPFO offices through previous or present employer.

(b) The member is required to take the printout of the submitted online claim application, sign it and submit it to the employer, previous or present, depending on the option chosen by the member while submitting the online claim.

(c) To forward the online claims submitted by members, the employer should attest the claims submitted by the member on Online Transfer Claim Portal (OTCP) using his Digital Signature Certificate (DSC).

(d) Detailed process flow for attestation of an online claim has been explained on the portal for the convenience of employers. The employer should go through the process flow before attesting the Online Claim Application.

(e) Depending on the employer opted to apply the claim through, the member details would be available for verification and accordingly the claim can be attested or rejected.

(f) The employer can verify or edit only the details entered by the member. The details populated from EPFO database cannot by edited by the employer.
(g) After attestation or rejection of the claim, the employer can see the attested/rejected claim details in the “History of Approved/Rejected Claims” option.

II. Verification of member details as previous employer :
(a) This is required in such cases where the member has opted for the present employer for attestation of claim and the member details pertaining to the previous establishment are not available in EPFO database. In such cases, the member enters such details in the claim form.

(b) Since the member details pertaining to previous establishment are not available in EPFO database, the details entered by member are subject to verification. Thus, the details entered by the member are required to be verified by the employer from the establishment office records.

(c) In such cases, a pending task would be generated in the log-in of the previous employer on portal for verification of the member details pertaining to previous establishment. The verification of such details is required to be done by the previous employer by using his Digital Signature Certificate (DSC).

(d) Detailed process flow for verification of member details has been explained on the portal for the convenience of employers. The employer should go through the process flow before carrying out the verification of member details.

(e) It may be noted that only those details entered by the member are editable. The details as available in EPFO database are not editable.