KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) will close its offices and service counters nationwide from June 1-14 in line with the implementation of the first phase of a total lockdown during the period.
The retirement fund also said from March 8, members may amend their application details such as amount to be withdrawn, bank details, address, telephone number, and payment method on i-Sinar Online.
KUALA LUMPUR: Applications for the i-Sinar facility in February submitted before Feb 25 will be approved in batches and payments started Tuesday (March 2), the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) said.
The EPF said in a statement this included applications awaiting approval and were previously rejected, before the improvised i-Sinar facility without criteria was implemented in February.
“Members who continue to see an unchanged application status may recheck their status on subsequent days.
Easier: The decision to remove conditions on i-Sinar eligibility was taken into consideration after public feedback.
PETALING JAYA: The move to relax the i-Sinar withdrawal facility will bring much relief to those working in sectors hardest hit by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, say economic analysts.
“This is a wise move. When the original requirement was stipulated, we could not have guessed that a second round of the movement control order (MCO) was implemented, ” said Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST) University vice-chancellor and economist Prof Datuk Dr John Antony Xavier.
On Thursday, Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Aziz said the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is working towards removing all conditions for the i-Sinar withdrawal facility.
PETALING JAYA: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is working towards removing all eligibility conditions for the i-Sinar withdrawal facility, says Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Aziz.
JOHOR BARU: Johor Perikatan Nasional has lauded the government’s decision to remove all eligibility conditions for the i-Sinar withdrawal facility for Employees Provident Fund (EPF) members.