Certificate under Para 26(6) for exercising option for higher pension under EPF in ESS Portal :

BSNL CO issued instructions to all circle heads regarding furnishing of the certificate under Para 26(6) for exercising option for higher pension under EPF.

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The process of certificate generation is as below :

Employees who were members of EPF before 01.09.2014 and are presently working:

The certificate shall be auto generated by the employee himself/herself through ESS login of the employees using TAB” EPFO Certificate”.

For Employees retired before 01.09.2014 & For Employees who were members of EPF before 01.09.2014 and retired on or after 01.09.2014:

In order to facilitate timely settlement of higher pension cases, any DDOs i.e. The SSA Payadmins or Circle Payadmins may generate the Certificates in SAP using T Code “ZHR_EPFP_CERTIFICATE” and inputting the pernr of the retired employee whose certificate is required to be generated. The retired employee may get the same from nearest BSNL office.