Life certificate issues haunt pensioners Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA In the light of COVID-19, the Employment Provident Fund Organisation has extended the time limit for submitting pension life certificate till February 28, 2021.
Seventy-year-old Kavita D’Souza (name changed) from Gorigudda in the city recently gave her fingerprint on the biometric device with the postman who arrived at the house for updating her life certificate for receiving pension. However, a month after she gave the finger print, the senior citizen received an SMS from her bank stating that her life certificate has not been updated yet. When her son visited the bank to enquire about it, the officials concerned asked him to bring his aged mother to the branch at Valencia stating that her life certificate has not been updated. He told