PF Withdrawal Pending With PF Bangalore Office

Dear All,

I am from Pune & I working was with IBM (Pune).

I have applied for PF withdrawal 1.3 yr back in month of Aug 2011 in Bangalore office.

I found that PF status online was rejected and I did not received any communication from PF office neither from IBM for this.

I have been mailing to IBM PF withdrawal team about my PF status, as per them they have not received the status.

I have contacted PF office personally and visited to PF office Bangalore, they told me we have already sent communication to IBM PF withdrawal team about rejection.

PF office people in Bangalore are very poor as far as verbal communication is concern, neither they gave me exact idea what is issue and how it can be sorted.

After detail research I found, IBM has marked me "INTERNATIONAL WORKER" hence PF withdrawal is rejected by PF office Bangalore and I CAN NOT WITHDRAW PF FOR 57 Yrs.

It has been also told to me that I cannot transfer PF due to same reason.

When I contact IBM team, they told me they have never marked me as 'International worker'.

I have wrote almost 21 mail to IBM team & received very very bad response from them.



In month of Sep 2012 ,I applied for PF transfer from my existing company & now also I could see status of PF transfer rejected due to “Name & PF did not match with data they exists.”

I did not received any communication neither my company about rejection.

I don’t understand why this PF office Bangalore not clear in communication & it seems they only look at opportunity to reject the PF .Point to note here is “Name & PF number” was very much same as first time PF was rejected due to “International worker Status”

Now can you suggest me any forum or person who can help to resolve this issue so that I can withdraw or transfer my PF.

Dear Sujit,
IBM should have intimated you regarding the rejection of your PF claim
so that you reapply for the claim.Actually the rejected application goes
to the claimant residence address as per what i know.
Anyway you can go a PF fresh withdrawal claim .You can send a new application
with correct details . mention the reference of the delay and subsequent rejections.
PF office has to either settle your claim OR send it back for correction .They can
not keep it with them without doing anything else they have to pay you with penalty .
Regards
Rajeev Dixit

Thanks Rajeev,
I hope IBM would have communicated me the same.unfortunately their replies are very short and with phone-numbers.Difficult to contact them & understand the situation. I have applied twice for withdrawal & once for transfer,but every time I status looks rejected online & no communication from IBM.
Bangalore EPF office @ whitefiled are very poor in communication and do not answer in English or any understandable language.
Rather they are reluctant to reply and do not pick up land line phone numbers ( given by IBM)
looking all these things I am looking for a forum or direct contact who can solve my issue on top priority with all my concerns.
I hope there will be someone who can hear my case.

Dear SujitQM,

In some instances the PF office rejects the claim and forwards it to the previous employer as he will be one who will be able to provide information about the candidate. It is the responsibility of the employer to contact the respective ex - employee, seek details and furnish the needed clarification to the PF office to process the claim.

I would recommend that you send a letter by registered post furnishing details of the claims submitted by you to the PF office. PF office also conducts regular adalats when disputed claims are attended and sorted out then and there without any delay. Gone are the days when one needs to march to the PF office frequently to obtain his claim. It is almost hassle free when all documents are in order. I wonder why you you applied for withdrawal twice and for transfer once. In such a case your current employer ought to have processed the transfer claim. In such a case you can seek the help of your current employer to know the status.

Regards

M.V.Kannan