EPFO settles 7000 claims

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Apr 27: EPFO Regional Office, Jammu has taken some proactive measures and collective efforts have been made in recent past by the “Team EPFO J&K and Ladakh” to come upto the expectations of the stakeholders.
EPFO is providing social security to all its members with great zeal, energy, and enthusiasm despite several hurdles and obstacles coming in the way. There has been asignificant improvement in the daily settlement of claims which has increased from around 500 daily to more than 1000 claims daily.The dedicated team of EPFO RO Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh has taken a resolve to extend seamless service to the stakeholders of UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. During previous seven days. EPFO, Jammu settled more than 7000 claims. A small teamof volunteers supported in achieving this task by speedy processing of “joint declaration forms”, received in Office for rectifying basic details and completing missing details of employees (P F subscribers).
Pramod Lokhande, (DPA) and Rajan T. (DPA), who are handling this task were helped by Kanchan, DEO and Abhitosh, DEO who joined Lokhande and typed the details quickly so that maximum number of joint declarations are submitted for approval today only.
This team spirit and attitude of rising to the occasion was acknowledged by P F Commissioner, Rizwan Uddin, who also appreciated top performers of the day namely- Arun Kumar, SSSA (105 claims), Chiranji Lal Sharma, SSSA (91 claims), Subhash Chandra, SSSA (more than 90 claims), Dharmendra Kumar, SSSA (75 claims) and Sanjeev Kumar, SSSA (65 claims).