EPF PF balance check passbook UAN 2026

You can check EPF PF balance with an activated UAN on the EPFO member portal, the official passbook site, or UMANG. EPFO does not charge a rupee to view the passbook. Never share the OTP or password with a caller who offers to check it for you.

• Member portal, passbook, UMANG
• Activate UAN
• Passbook and UAN login steps
• Never share OTP
• Missing deposits
• FAQ

Your EPF balance is employee contribution, employer contribution, and interest EPFO has already credited. The Universal Account Number ties every Member ID across jobs.

Balance is not claim status. Balance is the money still in the account. Claim status is a Form 19 or Form 31 already filed. For that tracker, use EPF PF claim status check UAN.

Offline extras, if the sites are down: missed call to 9966044425 from the UAN-registered mobile, or SMS EPFOHO UAN to 7738299899. Both are printed on the official passbook page. In some states a USSD *99# menu still shows PF. Confirm on your own handset. Do not treat *99# as a national promise.

EPFO help desk number on the same passbook page: 1800118005.

Every route above needs an activated UAN with KYC. Seed at least Aadhaar, and preferably PAN and bank too.

After EPFO's mid-2026 portal upgrade, UAN activation and direct allotment are offered on the UMANG app with Aadhaar face authentication, not on the old website button. Follow the live EPFO / UMANG labels. Retrieve UAN on the member portal if the screen still offers it.

If you already have a PF account but no UAN, use the UMANG allotment-and-activation path, then come back to passbook. Step notes: recover and activate UAN.

Aadhaar must be yours and live. Enrolment and updates: how to apply for Aadhaar. PAN seeding fights: how to apply for PAN card and PAN Aadhaar name mismatch KYC.

This is the detailed epf passbook.

1. Open passbook.epfindia.gov.in.
2. Log in with UAN, password and captcha.
3. Select the Member ID for that job.
4. Read the running balance, or download PDF.

Old jobs stay as separate Member IDs until you merge or transfer them. Do not panic if one ID looks small. Open each ID.

1. Open unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface.
2. Complete uan login with UAN, password and captcha.
3. Use the passbook / online-services links the upgraded dashboard shows.
4. For a claim you already filed, leave this page and use the claim-status guide.

1. Install UMANG from the official app store.
2. Search EPFO, then Employee Centric Services.
3. Tap View Passbook.
4. Enter UAN. Take the OTP on the UAN-linked mobile.

UMANG can also raise a claim. That is a different task from reading the balance.

From the UAN-registered mobile only:

1. Missed call 9966044425. The call drops after two rings. EPFO SMSes last contribution and balance. The passbook page treats this as free.
2. SMS EPFOHO UAN to 7738299899. Reply includes last contribution, balance and KYC flags. For a language other than English, EPFO's published pattern adds a language code after UAN, for example EPFOHO UAN HIN.

KYC must already be seeded for these two to work.

• Use only passbook.epfindia.gov.in and unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in.
• Refuse any “helper” who wants to log in on your behalf.
• A cyber cafe may type on your screen while you watch. They must not take the OTP to another phone.

First pick the right Member ID. Then wait a short while for a very recent month. Employers file, then EPFO posts.

If a real gap remains, the employer may have deducted EPF from salary and not deposited it. That is a record you are entitled to see.

1. Raise EPFiGMS at epfigms.gov.in and keep the number.
2. File RTI under RTI Act 2005 s.6(1) to the EPFO regional office PIO. Ask when that establishment last paid your UAN. The PIO must reply in 30 days under s.7(1). First appeal: s.19(1).
3. Draft with the AI RTI Drafter. Method: The RTI Playbook. Employer-default path: RTI when an employer is not depositing EPF.

Sample RTI, five lines:

1. Month-wise EPF credits posted to UAN / Member ID from to .
2. Months in that period with no credit, as on the date of the reply.
3. Copy of ECR / payment challans the establishment filed for those months.
4. Name of the enforcement officer if a default is on record.
5. Action taken, if any, to recover unpaid dues for this UAN.

Do not ask the PIO to “put interest extra by Monday”. Ask for the deposit record.

Go to passbook.epfindia.gov.in, complete uan login, pick the Member ID, and view or download. UMANG View Passbook is the phone version. Both need an activated UAN and a linked mobile.

Open UMANG, search EPFO, Employee Centric Services, View Passbook. Enter UAN and the OTP. That is pf balance umang. Track Claim on the same menu is for a filed claim, not for the running balance.

On the member portal or passbook site: 12-digit UAN, password, captcha. On UMANG: registered mobile, then UAN plus OTP. Reset the password only on the official host, never on a Google-ad clone.

Yes. EPFO does not charge to view balance. The missed call drops at no cost as described on the passbook page. SMS is at your normal message rate. Anyone quoting a “passbook fee” is not EPFO.

Yes. Missed call 9966044425 or SMS EPFOHO UAN to 7738299899, from the UAN-registered mobile, with KYC already seeded. Passbook and UMANG need data.

Usual causes: UAN not activated, no KYC, mobile not linked, or the wrong Member ID. Activate on UMANG if the website no longer has the button. Then wait a short while and retry.

No. Balance is savings. Claim status is a withdrawal or transfer already filed. Use this page for the passbook. Use the claim-status sibling for Form 19 and Form 31.

• EPF PF claim status check UAN
• Status check guides
• How to apply guides
• AI RTI Drafter
• The RTI Playbook

• Member passbook: passbook.epfindia.gov.in
• Member portal: unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in
• Missed call and SMS, as printed on the passbook page: 9966044425 and EPFOHO UAN to 7738299899. Help desk 1800118005
• EPFiGMS: epfigms.gov.in
• RTI Act 2005 s.6(1), s.7(1), s.19(1)

Reviewed for RTI Wiki by Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak.