Calculation rules and dated sources
Rule version C22-EPF-2026-10-09; source check 9 October 2026.
Projection starts 1 October 2026. Ages are scenario ages at that date, with birthdays and salary increases every 12 months. Opening balance excludes uncredited interest; prior financial-year accrual and all pre-start transactions are outside this projection.
Standard 12% active domestic, non-exempt case only. Confirm statutory PF wages, valid higher-wage option where selected, and payroll-permitted VPF after other deductions. No extra employer VPF match is assumed. Higher EPS pension, 10% establishments, international workers, exempt trusts and arrears are unavailable.
Current ₹25,000 ceiling, contribution rates and rules are held constant as a future scenario. Contributions are credited at each month-end and earn interest from the next month. Employee, employer total, EPS and VPF contributions round independently to whole rupees, with 50 paise rounded up; employer EPF is the rounded employer total less rounded EPS.
Interest accrues on each month's opening EPF balance at your annual scenario rate / 12; accrued interest does not compound monthly. It is credited each 31 March, rounded to whole rupees with 50 paise rounded up. Final partial-year accrued interest is shown separately, not credited or included in the displayed EPF balance. This is not a final withdrawal/settlement quote.
No FY2026–27 final notified rate is applied. Enter an explicit future scenario rate. The 2 March 2026 CBT recommendation of 8.25% for FY2025–26 is not evidence of a final government notification and is not used as a guaranteed future return.
Normal EPS membership must be explicitly selected from payroll records; it is not determined by salary. EPS contributions cease at scenario age 58. EPS pension estimate unavailable: no assumed past service or pension amount. EPS and government pension contributions do not enter the EPF balance.
EPF Scheme 2026, G.S.R.525(E), published 1 July 2026, §§9,18–19,41–42
EPF corrigenda G.S.R.703(E), 4 August 2026
EPS Scheme 2026, G.S.R.527(E), 29 June 2026, §§4,7
EPS corrigenda G.S.R.704(E), 4 August 2026
EPFO circular 25 September 2026 / S.O.5109(E), ceiling effective 17 September 2026
Code on Social Security 2020, §2(82), Chapter III superannuation at 58
PIB, 2 March 2026: FY2025–26 8.25% recommendation, not final notification