What Is EPFO TRRN? How to get it?

Employee’s Provident Fund, also commonly known as EPF, is a scheme first introduced by the Employee Provident Fund Organisation or EPFO. In this scheme, employees and employers add a part of their monthly salaries towards the PF fund. This fund is well known for building a corpus for retirement. Previously, the whole method was not wholly digitised, but with time, as the technology covers everything, nowadays, EPF details have their online presence. The company must register on the EPFO portal to avail of all the digital facilities. The Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India fully monitors this EPFO portal.

While the registration is done with the portal, all payments towards the PF can be made online. Online mode payment will lead you to learn about a term, TRRN. Now, what is TRRN

EPFO TRRN: What is TRRN?

TRRN denotes a Temporary Return Reference Number. This TRRN is an ID number obtained by the EPFO for a payment transaction. When the employer or the PF account holder pays the PF amount through the online mode towards the monthly PF contribution, this number is created. 

This TRRN number can be further used for reviewing the detailed status of PF challan payments. Also, you are able to download the receipt in PDF format without logging into the EPF online site.

EPFO TRRN: How can you check the TRRN status on your own?

Checking the TRRN status is quite easy on the portal. Here are the detailed steps you have to follow to check the status.

• First, go to the website: https://unifiedportal-epfo.epfindia.gov.in/ 
• When opening this website, you must enter the TRRN number in the stipulated box.
• There will be a captcha. Fill up the captcha in the box.
• When you fill-up these two properly, you can see the TRRN status by tapping on the search button.

EPFO TRRN: In the case of old TRRN status, how can you check the status?

• Type in the website in your search engine: https://www.epfindia.com/ 
• Click on the section named “For Employers” under the Service section on this website. 
• You can find two different links under that section. The first one will be “TRRN Query (Up to December 2016)”, and the second one will be “EPFO Establishment Search / TRRN Query.”
• If you want to visit all the status of your PF payment for which the challan was created before December 2016, click on the link “TRRN Query (Up to December 2016)”.
• When you need to see the status of the PF payment, write down your TRRN number. Put the captcha again. The status of the PF will be downloaded directly.

EPFO TRRN: How can you check the PF submission status with the help of TRRN?

1. If you want to check the status of PF payments generated before December 2016, click the TRRN Query (through December 2016) link.
2. Enter your TRRN number and Captcha to check PF Challan’s payment status. Now download the status as a PDF document.
3. To view his PF Challan payment status for Challan created after December 2016, go to the Services section and click the EPFO ​​Establishment Search / TRRN Query link.
4. Clicking on the link will redirect you to the page shown below. Now you need to click on the TRRN search query link.
5. You will be redirected to a page where you must enter the TRRN and Captcha and click the Search button. Clicking the search button will display the status of the PF charan that contains the TRRN number you entered, along with information such as the date the PF charan was created and the Facility ID.
6. The facility name, Challan type, total number of members, amount, deposit confirmation bank, CRN, deposit confirmation date, and other details are listed below. You can also download PF Challan’s payment receipt and status, as shown below, by clicking the Download PDF button in the top right corner.
7. You can use your TRRN number to obtain your provident fund payment receipt and status. 

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