EPFO: Employees Enrolment Campaign (EEC) 2025

The Employees Enrolment Campaign, 2025, is a special drive by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to encourage employers to enroll employees who were missed from Provident Fund coverage between July 1, 2017 and October 31, 2025. The scheme is available from November 1, 2025, and will end on April 30, 2026.​

Key Features of the Campaign:

• Employers are permitted to declare employees who joined between July 1, 2017, and October 31, 2025, and who are still employed and alive when making the declaration.​
• The campaign allows coverage for establishments previously not under the Act and for missed employees in covered establishments.​
• Eligible only if employees’ share have not been previously deducted and kept with employer
• In case wherein inquiries under Section 7A of the act or under paragraph 26B of the Scheme or under paragraph 8 of the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 are pending and the employer opts for the Employees’ Enrolment Campaign, 2025, both the employee and the employer contribution shall be payable.
• The employer shall deposit contributions in respect of declared employees for past periods from their respective date of joining as declared by the employer, that
  • the employer shall only be required to pay the employer’s share, provided the employees’ share has not been deducted and kept with the employer;
  • the employees’ share shall be waived, if not deducted by employer earlier.
  • the employer shall pay interest for the past period under section 7Q of the Act along with administrative charges, as applicable.
• Employers must authenticate declared employees with Face Authentication Technology via UMANG application and process payments online using Electronic Challan-cum-Return (ECR).​
• Only a single declaration per establishment is allowed; multiple submissions are not permitted.​
• After declaration, regular Provident Fund compliance must commence from the date of declaration.​

Benefits and Relaxations

• If the employees’ share of Provident Fund contributions was not deducted earlier, it is fully waived for the campaign period; the employer only pays their own share along with interest and administrative charges.​
• Penalties (damages) for non-compliance during the period are capped at a nominal one-time payment of ₹100 per employee, provided certain conditions are met.​
• Cases already assessed under existing EPFO inquiries before the campaign are not eligible for these relaxations.​
• No suomotu compliance action will be taken against employers who participate properly and declare all eligible employees, provided all dues for previous and current employees are settled.​

Linkage with PM Viksit Bharat Rojgar Yojana

Employers who register employees under the EEC, 2025, can also avail themselves of the benefits under the Pradhan Mantri-Viksit Bharat Rojgar Yojana, subject to scheme conditions. The scheme offers incentives for establishments that enroll new employees and maintain additional employment following the campaign period.​

Key Features of the Campaign:

• The PM-VBRY shall be applicable to all of the employers who register in EPFO or declare additional employees, in terms of provisions of the Employees’ Enrolment Campaign, 2025, from the date of submission of declaration.
• Part A Benefits: The first timers joining such establishments subsequent to the date of submission of declaration or final conclusion of the inquiry, shall be eligible to avail the benefits under Part A of Pradhan Mantri-Viksit Bharat Rojgar Yojana, subject to fulfilment of the terms and conditions of the Scheme.
• Part B Benefits:
  • Registration period for the employers availing benefits of the Employees’ Enrolment Campaign, 2025 shall commence from the First day of the month following six completed months from date of submission of declaration or final conclusion of the Inquiry as the case may be, and shall be up to 31st July, 2027. All the eligibility criteria like threshold/net additionality, length of service of new employees etc. shall be calculated with effect from the said date.
  • For employers already registered with EPFO, all additional employees declared under the EEC, 2025 shall be added to their baseline. If the employer has already received benefits under the PM-VBRY before making a declaration under the EEC, 2025, the benefit so given shall be adjusted against future payments. In case, no future payment is payable by such employers, EPFO shall take necessary steps for recovery of such excess amount of benefits.
• Only employees who joined after July 1, 2017, and before October 31, 2025, are eligible for declaration.​
• Cases pertaining to employment prior to July 1, 2017 are not covered under this campaign.​
• Any misrepresentation or suppression of facts will void the declaration and lead to penal action under EPF laws.​

Please find attached the gazette notification below:

EEC-EPFO-2025