EPFO Scheme 2025: The Employees Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) new Employee Enrollment Scheme came into effect on November 1. Let us understand the purpose of this scheme implemented by the Ministry of Labor and Employment, and its applicable eligibility criteria, benefits, and rules.
Employees’ Enrolment Campaign 2025
This scheme, which will come into effect from November 1, 2025, has been launched as the Employee Enrolment Campaign 2025. Its purpose is to encourage employers to bring under the ambit of the Employees’ Provident Fund ( EPF ) those employees who, for some reason, have not been able to register so far. The official circular dated October 10, 2025, detailing this, refers to it as the Employees’ Provident Funds (Amendment) Scheme, 2025.
According to the circular, the EPFO Employees’ Enrolment Campaign 2025 will run from November 1, 2025, to April 30, 2026, under this special scheme. Under this special employee enrollment campaign, employers will have approximately six months to regularize their records by adding their former or current employees to the EPFO . Let’s explore the eligibility, benefits, and rules for participating in this campaign:
Who is eligible?
Under this scheme (EPFO Scheme 2025), any company or establishment can participate in the enrollment campaign, whether or not it is already covered under EPF. Under this campaign:
Employers can register employees who started working for them between July 1, 2017 and October 31, 2025 and who are alive and employed as on the date of declaration.
Compliance for these employees will be considered to start from the month in which the employer gives the declaration of their joining.
What will be the benefit of enrollment?
The biggest benefit of enrolling under this campaign is that if an employee’s EPF contribution hasn’t been deducted before, their Employee Share will be waived. Employers will only receive their Employer’s Share.Interest calculated under section 7Q (Interest – Sec 7Q), andAdministrative charges will have to be paid.
Also, in all these cases, by paying a penalty of Rs 100 only once, it will be considered as compliance under all the three schemes – EPF Scheme 1952, EDLI Scheme 1976 (Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme, 1976) and EPS Scheme 1995 – after which the full benefit of all the three schemes will be available.
How to apply?
Employers will have to generate Universal Account Number (UAN) for their eligible employees, which will be face authentication based.
For this it is necessary to use UMANG App.
After this, the employer will have to login to the EPFO portal and give the declaration.
After this it will have to be linked to Electronic Challan-cum-Return (ECR).
Declaration can be done only online, and multiple declarations will not be allowed.
