EPFO Launches Employee Enrolment Scheme 2025 to Widen Social Security Coverage

The Employee Enrolment Campaign 2025 was launched by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on 1 November 2025. It gives employers a one-time opportunity to voluntarily declare and register employees who were earlier left out of the EPF system. The goal is to widen social-security coverage, ensure compliance, and regularise unreported employees under the EPF, EPS, and EDLI schemes. The campaign runs from 1 November 2025 to 30 April 2026.

Main Features: Coverage and Eligibility, Key Benefits and Reliefs

1. Coverage and Eligibility

• Applies to all establishments — whether already covered under EPF or not.
  
• Eligible employees are those who joined between 1 July 2017 and 31 October 2025, and are still in service on the date of declaration.
  
• Employees who joined before 1 July 2017 are not covered.
  

2. Key Benefits and Reliefs

• Employee’s share of contribution for the past period is waived, if it was never deducted from their salary.
  
• Employers must pay their own share of contribution with applicable interest and admin charges.
  
• Only a nominal penalty of ₹100 per employee is payable.
  
• Once declared, employees gain full EPF, Pension (EPS), and Insurance (EDLI) benefits.
  

3. Process

• Employers identify eligible employees and ensure they have valid UANs.
  
• Submit declaration online through EPFO portal.
  
• Deposit employer contributions and nominal damages.
  
• Continue regular monthly compliance after registration.
  

4. Objective: The campaign aims to promote formalisation of employment, bring unregistered workers under retirement savings, and encourage voluntary compliance by employers.

Conclusion

The Employee Enrolment Scheme 2025 is a limited-period compliance window for employers to register missed employees under EPFO with minimal penalty and maximum benefit.
It strengthens worker protection, encourages transparency, and expands India’s formal social-security network. Employers are urged to act within the timeline to ensure compliance and safeguard employee benefits.

FAQs

1. Who can participate in the scheme?

Ans: Any employer — whether already covered under EPF or not — can declare eligible employees and regularise them.

2. Which employees are eligible?

Ans: Those who joined on or after 1 July 2017 and on or before 31 October 2025, and are still working.

3. What is the penalty?

Ans: A flat ₹100 per employee, regardless of service period.

4. What relief is given?

Ans: Employee’s share is waived (if not earlier deducted); only the employer’s share and interest must be paid.

5. What is the scheme duration?

Ans: From 1 November 2025 to 30 April 2026.