There have been a bunch of questions around UAN aka ‘Universal Account Number’, coming in the form of comments on few articles related to Employee Provident Fund here on my blog. This article is aimed at addressing some of the common questions and providing with relevant information about UAN. If you have any specific query related to UAN, feel free to add a comment and I will try my best to answer.
UAN stands for Universal Account Number. The UAN is issued by Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India. This number will act as an identity for multiple member IDs allotted to an employee by different establishments. This would be one more addition to all other numbers one may already have! The idea behind coming up with one more number is to link multiple identification numbers allotted by many employers to an individual under a single Universal Account Number (UAN). To explain it better, let me quote the example of multiple PF account numbers provided by various employers to an individual during the employment tenure. Every time an individual quits the employment with one organization and joins another, a new PF is assigned. With this UAN, an individual can link all the previous EPFO accounts and ensure a smoother transfer/withdrawal of PF amounts as needed. If a member is already allotted UAN, then he/she is required to provide the same on joining new establishment to enable the employer to in-turn mark the new allotted Member Identification Number (Member Id) to the already allotted UAN.
How do I get my UAN? Initially UAN is allocated only to an employee who is in active service with an employer between 01-Jan-2014 and 30-Jun-2014. This newly generated UAN for an employee is communicated to employers alone and will not be directly available/communicated to an individual by the Ministry of Labour & Employment. Employees should contact their respective employer to obtain UAN.
Since this UAN is being put into effect in a phased manner, there will be some delays for sure in getting all the previous accounts linked. To know if you have been assigned with a UAN, follow this link and provide your current PF number. If you have been assigned a UAN, you get the confirmation message of ‘Your UAN is allotted, kindly get your UAN No. from your employer.’ Upon getting the UAN, an individual is required to complete some more verification by submitting an existing photo and address identity proof to have it activated for future use.
While registering for UAN, note of the following:
• Obtain UAN from your employer alongwith your member ID.
• Your mobile number would be required to activate registration.
• Given mobile number can be used for one UAN registration only.
• You can view the passbooks of the EPF accounts tagged with UAN.
I hope this article was of some help to get you started with UAN and there by to link all your previous PF accounts with one single identity. If you have any further questions or insights you want to share with rest of the readers on this blog, please share your thoughts in the form of comments below. This will surely help many people!
Kiran pawar says
Kiran I am having the same issue as well . Not able to login with the password that I chose. UAN and password just disappear after clicking on submit button. However when I enter a wrong password invalid credentials message comes . Any idea how to solve this
Shilpa says
I would like to know what happens in the following case – If an employee has a UAN number and then while leaving the job he withdraws the entire PF amount and then after 6 months joins another company.
Will he be given a new UAN number or will the previous UAN number continue
Jaideep says
I am having a UAN number from my previous organization. And I had activated that UAN number as well. Now as an employee at a new place, I have received another UAN number.
As a single UAN account should be activated, I came to know, that I should provide my current employer’s with the previous UAN number. So that they can move my PF account to the activated UAN number by my previous employer using the employer portal.
Please let me know if there is a step instructions to resolve this issue.
Vivek Mukherjee says
Dear Sir, I have UAN No already alloted by my Old employer & already activated it on UAN Website. Currently I changed my Job & mu New employer asked for UAN number I have already given to them but since yeasterday I am not able to log in UAN website. I tried forget PASSWORD option & got password on my registered mobile number When tried with that password still I didn’t able to log in. I don’t able to understand the issue. Please help.
Kiran says
I am having the same issue as well . Not able to login with the password that I chose. UAN and password just disappear after clicking on submit button. However when I enter a wrong password invalid credentials message comes . Any idea how to solve this
Tharish says
I am also getting same issue.
Samir says
Is it possible through UAN no findout the previous company name?
Regards,
SAMIR
Bhupendra says
Dear sir,
i have UAN NO.
now i have resined my job on date 20.03.2015?
I want withdrawl my pf balance,
kindly give me diraction for my pf withdrawl
Krishan Bahadur says
Sir,
I have got my UAN no. but lost it with the phone which was carrying the SMS. Now how do I get my UAN no. When I go to the UAN link, it says the UAN has already been generated. I could not note down the UAN. Kindly let me know the procedure to get theUAN No at the earliest.
KISHORE says
Thank you sir,
At last iam able to apply for UAN no my OWN instead of depending on others.
I got reply saying with request number and with 7 day they will sending by sms my UAN number.
Thank you once again.
Debasis Goswami says
Sir
I worked in the mayurakshi cotton mills ltd ,panchra,birbhum, westbengal for 1&1/2 yrs in the year 1984.I have the joining & resignation letter. During my service period Pf was deducted .I have only Pf membership number being 778.I do not know the establishment code number.So the complete Pf account number can not be written for getting the Juan number.The company is not giving any help.The EPF of the company is under regional office durgapur ,west Bengal. Would you kindly help me in getting the establishment number & giving assistance for getting the accumulated Pf.
Regards
Debasis goswami
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Radhesh says
Dear Debasis,
Please try searching establishment code in epfo site
debasis goswami says
epfo site is not opening for searching establishment code number. pl suggest how I can enter into the epfo site for getting the establishment code.
Ravindra Sarnaik says
Dear Sir,
Ours two pvt. ltd. companies. We transferred some employees from one company to another company. We applied for UAN for both companies. UAN are alloted for both companies employees. Employees which transferred from one co to another got two UAN .
As per info we can not use two UAN.
Kindly guide us.
Vikas says
Sir,
I am working in a private company and i was interviewed by a govt organasation there i did not show my present employment.
During this i got my UAN no bt i cant show my experience in this case can i have another UAN NO or other PF no without showing experience.
if not how the proalem can be solved.
Sir please suggest me its turning point in my career
karamatali says
Sir,
I have got my UAN no. but lost it with the phone which was carrying the SMS. Now how do I get my UAN no. When I go to the UAN link, it says the UAN has already been generated. I could not note down the UAN. Kindly let me know the procedure to get theUAN No at the earliest.
Pankaj Mishra says
i have my pf number but i don’t have my UAN number then Please tell how i recived my UAN number.
Reshma says
Sir, I have an uan# but I have forgotten my request id how do I get please help
Davinder Singh says
Sir,
I have got my UAN no. but lost it with the phone which was carrying the SMS. Now how do I get my UAN no. When I go to the UAN link, it says the UAN has already been generated. I could not note down the UAN. Kindly let me know the procedure to get theUAN No at the earliest.
Rakesh Kumar singh says
I hv created uan & password.but I forgot my password.how to get my password sir.
Umesh Chand says
Dear Sir,
Mera PF Last Year Sep’14 se katna shuru huwa hai lakin mujhe ab tak mera UAN no. Nahi Mila hai kripya mujhe mera UAN no. batane ka kasht karen.
Thanks
jai kumar says
I had foget my password of uan no so
pls tell me how can i got it
Sharanpal Singh says
I have create my Uan number and password . How can know my epf balance on net. Pl. Tell me next procuder to know my epf .
Tanuj Pareek says
very good
Suhas says
I have two UAN no. Is there any issue in keeping two nos?
Rakesh says
If i withdraw my pf amount will my UAN no automatically deleted or not ?
Shilpa says
Can we link NPS details to UAN account along with PF? I read your other article on NPS and hence asking for info. Wouldn’t it be great to have all of it linked to UAN for easy reference?
Geetha Lakshmi G says
sir i joined in the institution on dec 13 and in our institution they deduct epf but i have not informed about my uan number. I want to know my UAN number, how can i know that?
Mohan says
Geetha – all you have to do is go to the UAN portal and submit your old PF number or the new one, you will know if UAN is allocated to you or not. If allocated, you can claim the same by registering it with details as mentioned above.
Ajay says
dear sir,
one employee join in over estt and we have issued uan number. but he has alredy a uan can I cancel his new uan
Mohan says
Ajay – please bring it up with UAN grievances and it should be sorted out easily.
Rishi Julka says
Hi,
Suppose one employee was in active service in between 01-Jan-2009 and 30-Jun-2010. But he did not get the UAN no. from employer . Hence how he can get now ?
Amaresh prasad pathi says
Dear sir, I have got una no. I want to check my pf balance .and correction my name.please help me
Eswaraiah says
sir,
i have some problem my UAN login how can do this. please clarify me sir
Gayathri says
Hi Sir,
The request status of my UAN says that “Request for UAN for this Member Id is already under process.(through ECR)”
This request was initiated by my previous employer.
But I have left the company few months back and I don’t know whether this request would be completed properly.
Now I want to link the previous company’s PF account to my new account.
Now the current employer is asking for UAN number.
What to do?
Gaurav Sharma says
I am having same problem. Can you please help?
Mahesh says
hello,
i forget my UAN number, how can get it.
please help me in this.
Nirbhay Agarwal says
from your employer.
waseem says
Dear sir/madam,
I have PF account from my previous company.I left that company 1 month back. Now i am in new company i have already UAN NO. i want to know how to add pf account no in UAN MEMBER PORTAL can u tell me step by step how to add PF no.i hope your suggest as soon as possible.
Thanks & Regards
waseem
Mahesh says
Dear Sir,
I have PF account from my previous company.I left that company 2 year back. Now i am in new company and dont have PF account here…My question is can i invest my PF money direct into nay kind of policy or scheme without withdrawing it.
Nirmal Kumar Krishnani says
Sir, I had been issued the 1st time UAN no. But not able to activate it because of some error I had talked to helpdesk and toll free no. but not helping to me at all. Hr says I don’t know nothing talk to epf office. There no one is knowing about this problem. Now where to go for solution.
Rajan says
can current employer see the details or download passbook of employee worked in previous employer
Nirbhay Agarwal says
i would guess not. otherwise this would be a breach of privacy.
Sagar Dangade says
Hi All,
I have total 4 PF account numbers including current organization, i activated UAN number online using PAN card number for my previous organization and there after I linked other two previous organizations PF account number but unable to link my current employer PF account number, this uan number activated from my PAN card number. There after i registered online using Aadhar card number but instantly I got message containing UAN number also now I am unable to understand what to do kindly some one suggest me for the same
Thanks in Advance…
shravan says
Linking older PF account with UAN:
did checking few blogs on linking the older PF accounts with the UAN
but for my case i did see that there is name-mismatch,
can you please me/suggest way here
Thanks,
Shravan
Vinod Sharma says
I am new join employee in my company. I want to know how to get my UAN number?
Pooja sahu says
how can i get my UAN number.
Radhesh says
Pooja,
You can get your UAN from your employer. If you are allocated with UAN already, you can get it through the link http://uanmembers.epfoservices.in/check_uan_status.php. You need to provide details like EPFO state, office, your company establishment code, Extension and EPF Member ID. You should have a mobile number to receive the OTP to activate your UAN.
Radhesh says
Hi Mohan,
I have my UAN and when I login to UAN Member Portal, I am able to see the list of previous employers with correct name and company name. However, Date of Joining and Date Of Exit are displayed as “N/A” instead of joining and exit dates. With this problem, can I link the previous employers PF details to my UAN?
Regards,
Shekar says
yes u can link
Tushar Surendra Khaire says
While activation of UAN my name is mismatch so how can i can my name
Shanu Kumar says
Sir i didnt got my uan no till now what should i do and till when i have to get uan no
Ganesh Motiram Sali says
Dear sir, in my UAN, there is a spelling mistake of my Father name is MOTIRAM instead of MOTHIRAM, so please help me to correct this mistake.
Shekar says
You have to do this through your employer
Sai says
My UAN been generated in old company,if i share this UAN with new company can i withdraw pf amount of previous company or not???
Mrs s. Khakha says
Sir,
My UAN account is activated, but when I try to login using my credential it doesn’t go the the next page, no error of wrong credential. Mean I give my UAN id and then Password and the click on sign in and its happen nothing…. why? I cannot access my account. Please help me …
Sri Sitaram Bhajanlal Nerkar says
Can i register two epf numbers(old & current) in one uan
Bushara v says
Dear sir, in my UAN card ,there is a spelling mistake Bushra instead of Bushara,’ so please help me to correct this mistake.
sowmya says
I have a UAN alloted for me from previous organization. I dont want to show tat experience to my new organization. I dint give mY UAN to my new company. Will my new organization be able to find my uan or will they create a new uan for me.but PF NO IN BOTH THE ORGANIZATION ARE DIFFERENT. SO WAT THEY WIL DO IN THIS CASE.
Ravi says
I am facing the same problem
Shekar says
yes your new organization can find your UAN based on your previous PF account number
P.K.Singh says
Suppose one employee was in active service in between 01-Jan-2014 and 30-Jun-2014. But he did not get the UAN no. from employer . Hence how he can get now ?
Jivraj Makwana says
dear sir, I have got UAN number 4 month ago. Now i want to know my current total pf. balance pl. help me.
Karthik says
hi mohan, this site is very useful and ur replies are very useful.
my question is I worked with a company for a month and they opened a pf account later next month I resigned without serving notice .. I din close that pf account but during that time UAN facility is not available so they din create any UAN S . now am working with different company with different PF account , still UAN is not allotted for me. whether I need to close that previous company pf account even though UAN is not created by previous company. pls advise me on this. all my colleagues received their UAN . thatsy I got doubt this might be the reason.
Rahul Kumat says
Plz tell how can I collect my UAN no. If my employer is not give my UAN no.