If you have looked at your EPF (Employees’ Provident Fund) details you might have wondered about deduction of Rs. 541 per month from your company’s (employer's) contribution to EPF.
Here is the explanation:
• Every month you need to contribute 12% of your basic salary to your EPF account
• Your employer also needs to contribute 12% of your basic to your EPF account. But this part is split into two -
• EPS (Employee Pension Scheme) – 8.33% of your basic salary goes towards EPS, subject to a maximum of Rs. 541 (i.e. 8.33% of Rs. 6,500)
• The rest of the amount goes into the EPF account.
EPF & EPS Calculation:
Here is an example of how EPF & EPS is calculated:
Suppose your basic salary Rs. 10,000 per month.
• 12% of basic is deducted from salary i.e. 12% of 10,000 = Rs. 1,200
• 12% of basic is contributed by employer i.e. 12% of 10,000 = Rs. 1,200
• Total contribution to EPFO = Rs. 2,400
• Out of total Rs. 2400, Rs. 541 goes towards EPS (Employees’ Pension Scheme) and the rest i.e. (2,400 – 541) = Rs. 1,859 goes towards EPF account.
Since the basic salary is more than Rs. 6,500, only 8.33% of Rs. 6,500 (i.e. 541) is contributed to EPS.
What is EPF & EPS?
First lets talk about the similarity between both – EPF & EPS. Both are Retirement Schemes compulsory for private company employees (employers with more than 50 employees) and are managed by EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation). In case of EPF you get certain percentage interest on your deposits, which are decided by EPFO board every year. Whatever is the amount accumulated in this EPF account by the time you retire, you receive that as a lump sum.
In case of EPS, you get a monthly pension after you retire which is based on a formula. The good thing about this pension is, your spouse/dependents continue to get this monthly pension even after your death subject to certain conditions.
How much Monthly Pension under EPS?
The next logical question is how much pension would you get under EPS scheme? It’s based on a formula:
Monthly Pension = (Pensionable salary X Pensionable service) / 70
• Where Pensionable salary is average of last 12 months basic salary with an upper cap of Rs. 6500 and
• Pensionable service is the tenure of your contribution to EPS.
Calculating Monthly Pension Amount:
For e.g. you join a private sector company at the age of 25 and continue working there till retirement at the age of 60; with your basic salary always exceeding Rs 10,000 per month. Here is what your monthly pension amount would be:
Pensionable salary = Rs. 6,500 [even though your basic salary is Rs. 10,000 but there is an upper limit of Rs. 6,500]
Pensionable service = 60 – 25 = 35 Years
So, Monthly Pension Amount = (6500 x 35) / 70 = Rs. 3,250
You would receive this amount of Rs. 3,250 as your monthly pension for your life time and this would continue even after your death to your dependents.
This brings us to the next question –
Is EPFO justified in paying such a small pension for your contribution of Rs. 541 per month for 35 years?
Let’s do some number crunching and get the answers.
Had your contribution not gone compulsorily into EPS, it would have gone to your EPF (or VPF) account and paid to you in bulk at the time of retirement. Assuming a rate of interest of 8.5% for entire tenure of EPF, the monthly contribution of Rs. 541 for 35 years (or 420 months) would grow to Rs.14,14,147.
You can withdraw this amount and invest in annuity options available with Insurance companies for regular income. Such an investment would give much better returns than this monthly pension of Rs 3250 PM in the given example.
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Here is the explanation:
• Every month you need to contribute 12% of your basic salary to your EPF account
• Your employer also needs to contribute 12% of your basic to your EPF account. But this part is split into two -
• EPS (Employee Pension Scheme) – 8.33% of your basic salary goes towards EPS, subject to a maximum of Rs. 541 (i.e. 8.33% of Rs. 6,500)
• The rest of the amount goes into the EPF account.
EPF & EPS Calculation:
Here is an example of how EPF & EPS is calculated:
Suppose your basic salary Rs. 10,000 per month.
• 12% of basic is deducted from salary i.e. 12% of 10,000 = Rs. 1,200
• 12% of basic is contributed by employer i.e. 12% of 10,000 = Rs. 1,200
• Total contribution to EPFO = Rs. 2,400
• Out of total Rs. 2400, Rs. 541 goes towards EPS (Employees’ Pension Scheme) and the rest i.e. (2,400 – 541) = Rs. 1,859 goes towards EPF account.
Since the basic salary is more than Rs. 6,500, only 8.33% of Rs. 6,500 (i.e. 541) is contributed to EPS.
What is EPF & EPS?
First lets talk about the similarity between both – EPF & EPS. Both are Retirement Schemes compulsory for private company employees (employers with more than 50 employees) and are managed by EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation). In case of EPF you get certain percentage interest on your deposits, which are decided by EPFO board every year. Whatever is the amount accumulated in this EPF account by the time you retire, you receive that as a lump sum.
In case of EPS, you get a monthly pension after you retire which is based on a formula. The good thing about this pension is, your spouse/dependents continue to get this monthly pension even after your death subject to certain conditions.
How much Monthly Pension under EPS?
The next logical question is how much pension would you get under EPS scheme? It’s based on a formula:
Monthly Pension = (Pensionable salary X Pensionable service) / 70
• Where Pensionable salary is average of last 12 months basic salary with an upper cap of Rs. 6500 and
• Pensionable service is the tenure of your contribution to EPS.
Calculating Monthly Pension Amount:
For e.g. you join a private sector company at the age of 25 and continue working there till retirement at the age of 60; with your basic salary always exceeding Rs 10,000 per month. Here is what your monthly pension amount would be:
Pensionable salary = Rs. 6,500 [even though your basic salary is Rs. 10,000 but there is an upper limit of Rs. 6,500]
Pensionable service = 60 – 25 = 35 Years
So, Monthly Pension Amount = (6500 x 35) / 70 = Rs. 3,250
You would receive this amount of Rs. 3,250 as your monthly pension for your life time and this would continue even after your death to your dependents.
This brings us to the next question –
Is EPFO justified in paying such a small pension for your contribution of Rs. 541 per month for 35 years?
Let’s do some number crunching and get the answers.
Had your contribution not gone compulsorily into EPS, it would have gone to your EPF (or VPF) account and paid to you in bulk at the time of retirement. Assuming a rate of interest of 8.5% for entire tenure of EPF, the monthly contribution of Rs. 541 for 35 years (or 420 months) would grow to Rs.14,14,147.
You can withdraw this amount and invest in annuity options available with Insurance companies for regular income. Such an investment would give much better returns than this monthly pension of Rs 3250 PM in the given example.
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