New Delhi, July 4 -- The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has restored its Unified Member Portal after a nearly week-long scheduled upgrade, introducing a redesigned interface and several changes to member services.

Among the biggest changes is the discontinuation of UAN activation through the EPFO portal. Members can also no longer generate a new Universal Account Number (UAN) directly from the website. Both services have now been shifted to the government's UMANG app and require Aadhaar-based Face Authentication (FAT).

The overhaul follows a major database consolidation and software upgrade that, according to EPFO, is aimed at making its online services faster, more secure and more reliable.

Following the upgrade, EPFO h...