New Delhi, July 28 -- Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) members who have switched jobs multiple times often lose track of their old PF accounts, leaving retirement savings lying in inactive accounts for years.

To make it easier for such members to recover these balances, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has developed a dedicated e-portal that allows users to trace, access and transfer old inoperative PF accounts using Aadhaar-based authentication.

In a written reply to the Lok Sabha on 27 July, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Shobha Karandlaje mentioned that the digital platform enables members to securely identify their old inoperative accounts and either transfer the balance to their active Universal Account...