New Delhi, July 24 -- Many EPF-related services, such as checking provident fund balance, filing claims, and updating account details, require you to log in to your account using your Universal Account Number (UAN). But if you have forgotten your UAN, then accessing these services can become difficult.

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) allows its members to retrieve their UAN online in just a few minutes. As long as your mobile number is linked to your provident fund account, you can recover your UAN through the EPFO portal without visiting an office.

UAN is a unique number that links all the EPF member IDs assigned to an employee by different employers during their career. Instead of having separate accounts for each jo...