EPFO declares interest rate for 2022-23: 8.15% rate of interest on employees' provident fund

EPFO declares interest rate for 2022-23: The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's (EPFO) has announced the rate of interest on employees’ provident fund (EPF) deposits for 2022-23. The retirement fund body has fixed an 8.15 per cent rate of interest on EPF deposits. The decision comes on the second day of the two-day meeting that began on Monday.

Earlier, the EPFO had lowered the interest on EPF for 2021-22 to 8.1 per cent. This was the lowest in over four-decade. There are about five crore subscribers of EPF.

This was the lowest since 1977-78, when the EPF interest rate stood at 8 per cent.

"The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's apex decision-making body Central Board of Trustees (CBT) has decided to provide an 8.15 per cent rate of interest on EPF for 2022-23 at its meeting on Tuesday," a source was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

The 8.5 per cent interest rate on EPF deposits for 2020-21 was decided by CBT in March 2021.

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After the CBT's decision, the interest rate on EPF deposits for 2022-23 will be sent to Ministry of Finance for concurrence.

After the government's ratification, the interest rate on EPF for 2022-23 will be credited into accounts of over five crore subscribers of EPFO.

EPFO provides the rate of interest only after it is ratified by the government through the finance ministry.

In March 2020, EPFO had lowered the interest rate on provident fund deposits to a seven-year low of 8.5 per cent for 2019-20, from 8.65 per cent provided for 2018-19.

EPFO had provided 8.65 per cent interest rate to its subscribers in 2016-17 and 8.55 per cent in 2017-18. The rate of interest was slightly higher at 8.8 per cent in 2015-16.

The retirement fund body had given 8.75 per cent rate of interest in 2013-14 as well as 2014-15, higher than 8.5 per cent for 2012-13. The rate of interest was 8.25 per cent in 2011-12.

With PTI inputs