You Can Now Use EPF Savings To Buy Home And Pay EMI  

25 Apr, 2017 12:18 IST|Sakshi
Home loan made easy for EPF subscribers (representational image)

NEW DELHI: Over four crore subscribers of the retirement fund body EPFO can now make down payment to buy homes and pay EMIs from their EPF accounts for home loan.

The subscribers of the the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will be allowed to withdraw up to 90 percent of their accumulations in their PF account for purchase of homes.

The EPFO has amended the scheme by inserting a new paragraph -- 68 BD -- to the Employees' Provident Funds (EPF) Scheme, 1952, to enable a subscriber to make down payment to buy homes and pay EMIs through the EPF account, according to official sources.

As the labor ministry has issued a notification for the purpose, the scheme stands amended.

Under the new provision, an EPF subscriber being a member of a co-operative or housing society with at least 10 members can withdraw up to 90 percent from the fund for purchase of a dwelling house or flat or construction of a dwelling house and acquisition of site.

It also provides that monthly installments for repayments of any outstanding payment or interest may also be paid from the amount to the government, housing agency, primary lending agency or banks.

However, the withdrawal facility from the PF account will be available to only those PF members who fulfill the conditions prescribed. The member applying under this provision should have contributed to the fund for at least three years.

The facility will be available only once to every member during his or her lifetime.

The rule applies to all those who together with their subscriber spouse have at least Rs20,000 in their accounts.

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