For Medical Purposes:
- An employee is allowed to withdraw employee’s share with interest or six times the monthly salary (whichever is lower) from the provident fund for the medical treatment purpose.
- It is applicable for medical treatments of self, spouse, children, and parents.
- There is no lock-in period or minimum service period for this type of withdrawal.
For Wedding:
At least 7 years of service is required to be completed to be eligible for pf withdrawal agents
50% of the employee’s contribution with interest can be withdrawn.
An employee can withdraw funds for his own, siblings or child’s marriage
For Renovating and Reconstructing a House :
- The employee can withdraw funds from his EPF account for the purpose of renovation and reconstruction.
- The house should be held in his/her name or held jointly with the spouse
- The employee must complete at least 5 years of total service
- The member can withdraw 12 times his monthly salary from his Provident fund account
For Purchasing or constructing a House:
- The member can withdraw from his employee provident fund for the purpose of purchasing a plot and constructing it.
- The property should be registered in his or her name or held jointly with a spouse.
- An employee should complete a minimum of 5 years of total service.
- 24 times of the monthly salary for purchasing a plot/36 times of the monthly salary for purchasing or constructing a house or the cost of the property or the total of employee’s and his employer’s share along with the interest amount (whichever is less) can be withdrawn.
- Withdrawal is allowed only after completing 5 years of service
- Withdrawal for the purpose of purchasing a plot and constructing it can be done only once in the entire service tenure.
Retirement :
- A person can withdraw his or her entire provident fund corpus after completing 58 years of age.
- The employee is allowed to withdraw up to 90% of the provident fund balance.
Unemployment:
- A person can withdraw 75% of his or her provident fund if he/she is unemployed for more than a month.
EPF Withdrawal Rules before 5 years of Service
EPF withdrawal before 5 years of continuous service attracts TDS on the withdrawal amount. However, if the withdrawal amount is less than ₹ 50,000, no TDS is deducted. In case you want to withdraw your funds before 5 years of service, you should keep the following EPF withdrawal rules in mind:
- As per the latest modification in ITR Forms 2 and 3, has to provide a detailed breakup of the entire amount deposited in the PF account every year.
- This will help the Income Tax Department to assess whether the withdrawal made by you is taxable or not.
- The department will also check whether additional tax has to be paid by you after revaluation.
- EPF contribution is done in four parts – Employee’s contribution, employer’s contribution and interest on each deposit.
- If the employee has claimed an exemption on EPF contribution for previous years as per Section 80-C, all four parts will be taxable.
- If the employee has not claimed an exemption in the previous year on EPF, the employee’s contribution part will be exempted from tax at the time of withdrawal.
- The tax will depend on the income slab in which the employee fell for that year.
- The tax will be applicable in the year of withdrawal but the consideration will be done for each year.
EPF Withdrawal Rules after Retirement
- As per the EPF Act, when a member retires at the age of 58 years, he has to claim for the final settlement.
- The total PF balance consists of both employees as well as the employer’s contribution.
- The member also becomes eligible for the EPS amount if he has served for a period of more than 10 years in continuation.
- In case the member has not completed 10 years of service at the time of retirement, he can withdraw the complete EPS amount along with his EPF.
- If he completes 10 years of service, the employee gets pension benefits after retirement.
- The withdrawal of the corpus accumulated in the EPF account after retirement is completely tax-free.
- The interest earned on the EPF corpus after retirement is taxable.
- If the member does not withdraw funds for three years after retirement, he will have to pay tax on the interest