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To keep EPFO viable, officials give House panel radical idea


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NEW DELHI: Top labour ministry officials on Thursday told a parliamentary panel on labour that for pension fund like the EPFO to remain viable, it must move from the prevailing system of “defined benefits” to a system of “defined contributions”, where members draw benefits commensurate with their contributions.
Sources said officials told the panel that EPFO had over 23 lakh pensioners drawing Rs 1,000 per month even when their contributions to the fund corpus had been less than a fourth of the benefits they were drawing. They also said this would be unviable for the government to support in the long run, unless a system of “defined contributions” was put in place. ....

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