{"id":2163,"date":"2013-02-25T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2014-07-21T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:39:42","slug":"epf-vpf-interest-rate-raised-to-8-5-for-2012-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/epf-vpf-interest-rate-raised-to-8-5-for-2012-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"EPF &#038; VPF Interest Rate raised to 8.5% for 2012 &#8211; 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is good news for five crore subscribers of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/tag\/epf\/\">EPF<\/a> (Employee Provident Fund) and VPF (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/voluntary-provident-fund-a-good-retirement-option\/\">Voluntary Provident Fund<\/a>)<\/strong>. EPFO has decided to increase the interest rate on both <strong>EPF &amp; VPF to 8.5% for FY 2012-13<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was reduced to 8.25% for FY 2011-12 from 9.5% a year earlier. The cut in interest rate had led to vociferous protests from political parties, trade unions and employees who depend on the scheme for their retirement benefits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Below is the history of EPF Interest rates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5658\" style=\"width: 661px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/History-of-EPF-Interest-Rates-since-1952-723x1024.png\" alt=\"History of EPF Interest Rates since 1952\" width=\"661\" height=\"936\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/History-of-EPF-Interest-Rates-since-1952-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/History-of-EPF-Interest-Rates-since-1952-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/History-of-EPF-Interest-Rates-since-1952.png 1095w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>History of EPF Interest Rates since 1952<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is good news for five crore subscribers of EPF (Employee Provident Fund) and VPF (Voluntary Provident Fund). EPFO has decided to increase the interest rate on both EPF &amp; VPF to 8.5% for FY 2012-13. This was reduced to 8.25% for FY 2011-12 from 9.5% a year earlier. The cut in interest rate had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,400,393],"tags":[405,406,447,402,399,407,396,2026,408,404,403,2835,394,397,395],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Good-News.png",486,258,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Good-News-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Good-News-300x159.png",300,159,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Good-News.png",486,258,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Good-News.png",486,258,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Good-News.png",486,258,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Good-News.png",486,258,false],"yarpp-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Good-News.png",120,64,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Amit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":3,"uagb_excerpt":"There is good news for five crore subscribers of EPF (Employee Provident Fund) and VPF (Voluntary Provident Fund). EPFO has decided to increase the interest rate on both EPF &amp; VPF to 8.5% for FY 2012-13. This was reduced to 8.25% for FY 2011-12 from 9.5% a year earlier. The cut in interest rate had&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}