Details of AG GPF

AG GPF (GOVERNMENT PROVIDENT FUND) COMPLETE INFORMATION

• ONLINE SUBMISSION OF GPF FINAL WITHDRAWAL AND PENSION
• INSTRUCTIONS ON ONLINE SUBMISSION PENSION
• CLICK HERE- FOR AG-GPF ANNUAL ACCOUNT SLIPS
• CLICK HERE FOR GPF MOBILE ALERTS

FORMS AND RELATED INFORMATION:

• ADMISSION FORM
• NOMINATION FORM
• DOUBTS CLARIFICATION
• RESIDUARY BALANCE CASES INFORMATION

   The following information can be accessed by the GPF subscribers:

• GPF information by all the State Government employees except class-IV employees (whose accounts are not being maintained by AG)
• Balance at credit as on date
• Current year’s Debits
• Missing Credits and Sanctions received without corresponding Debits
• Status of Final Withdrawal case i.e., (Received / under process/ Authorized and dispatched/ Pending for want of information from the department/ Case returned without finalization)
• For update your Mobile No. & Download your AG GPF Slip Click Here
• Accountant General Andhra Pradesh Main Website Click Here

Nominations to GPF:
       A subscriber has to file a nomination in the prescribed form at the time of joining the Fund. If the subscriber has a family at the time of filing the nomination, the nomination cannot be in favour of any person(s) other than the member(s) of his family. The nomination made by a subscriber who is not married shall become invalid on his getting married. If a subscriber nominates more than one person, he has to specify in the nomination the amount of share payable to each of the nominees in such a manner as to cover the whole of the amount that may stand to his credit in the Fund at any time. The responsibility of scrutiny, acceptance and safe custody of the nominations filed vests with the Prl. Accountant General. A subscriber can cancel a nomination by sending a notice in writing to the Head of Office/Prl. Accountant General along with a fresh nomination. 
       Every Nomination made, and every notice of cancellation given, by a subscriber shall, to the extent that it is valid, take effect on the date on which it is received by the Accounts Officer. 
Admission to the GPF:

        The Head of Office has to send a statement showing particulars of Government servants in the prescribed Form vide G.O.Ms.No.312 Fin, dated 28-10-1980 to the Principal Accountant General (A&E) for admission to the Fund. The GPF account number is allotted to each subscriber by the Principal Accountant General with a ‘Suffix’ indicating the department of the subscriber.
         
           The Drawing and Disbursing Officers in the State Government prepare the staff pay bills along with GPF recovery schedules in respect of the subscribers to the Fund under their payment control and submit the same to the Treasury Officers for payment. After making payment the Treasury Officers forward the recovery schedules along with the Schedule of Payment to the Prl. Accountant General. From the GPF schedules and GPF payment vouchers received in the monthly accounts rendered by the Treasury Officers, the Prl. Accountant General posts the remittances/withdrawals into the accounts of the subscribers concerned.
            The account maintained in respect of a subscriber shows the particulars of Opening Balance, subscriptions, refunds, amounts credited to the Fund like dearness allowance, pay revision arrears etc., withdrawals made, interest allowed and closing balance.

Rate of Subscription
         The amount of subscription is fixed by the subscriber himself. However, it cannot be less than 6% of the basic pay and not more than the basic pay. The minimum subscription is determined on the basic pay drawn on 31st March of the preceding financial year. The rate of subscription can be reduced once, enhanced twice, reduced and enhanced as aforesaid during the course of a financial year. 
Conditions for Subscription
The subscriber shall subscribe monthly to the Fund, except during: 
1. Period of suspension.
2. Last four months of service before retirement.
         A subscriber on reinstatement after a period of suspension is allowed to pay in lump or in installments any sum not exceeding the maximum amount of arrear subscriptions permissible for that period. A subscriber may at his option choose not to subscribe during leave without allowances or leave on half-pay.
          Arrears due to the subscriber after retirement should be paid to the subscriber in cash and should not be credited to GPF. 

Advances from the Fund

I. Temporary Advance (TA) 
          A temporary advance is granted to a subscriber from the amount standing to his credit in the Fund by the departmental officers for specified purposes. The amount of advance sanctioned shall not exceed 3 months pay or half the amount at the credit of the subscriber in the Fund, whichever is less subject to the following conditions. Sanction orders for temporary advances are noted in the subscribers’ accounts. 
          Temporary advance is to be applied in Prescribed Format. 
Reasons for drawal of Temporary Advance

• To meet expenses in connection with the prolonged illness of the applicant or any person actually dependant on him;
• To pay for the overseas passage for reasons of health or education, or to meet the cost of higher education of the subscriber or any person actually dependant on him;
• To pay obligatory expenses in connection with his or other ceremonies, or marriages, funeral or other ceremonies of persons actually dependant on him.
• To meet the cost of legal proceedings instituted by the subscriber for vindicating his position in regard to any allegations made against him in respect of any act done or purporting to be done by him in the discharge of his official duty.
• To meet the cost of building or acquiring a suitable house for his residence.
• To meet the cost of acquiring a farm land and / or business premises within 6 months of the date of the subscriber’s retirement. To meet the cost of purchasing a motor-car.

Recovery of Temporary Advance

• 1. The advances are recoverable from the subscriber in such number of equal monthly installments as the sanctioning authority may direct, but such number shall not be less than 12 , unless the subscriber so elects, and not more than 24. In special cases where the amount of advance exceeds 3 months’ pay, the number of installments can be more than 24, but in no case more than 36.2. When there is an advance running and a second advance is sanctioned, the balance of the previous advance not recovered shall be added to the advance so sanctioned and the subsequent installments for recovery of advances shall be fixed with reference to the consolidated amount.
• 3. The recovery shall commence with the issue of pay for the month following the month in which the advance was drawn.
• 4. A subscriber may, at his option, repay more than one installment in a month.
• 5. Recoveries towards refund of Temporary Advances shall not be affected during the last four months of service of subscriber.

Final Withdrawal (Closure) 

(i)       Final withdrawal of accumulation in the Fund is permitted when subscriber quits the service   (on retirement, dismissal, resignation, compulsory retirement, removal etc.). 
(ii)       In case of death while in service. 

 Annual Accounts Statement
       After the close of each financial year, the Principal Accountant General sends to each subscriber an Annual Accounts Statement showing the opening balance as on the 1st April of the year, the total amount deposited and withdrawn during the year, amount of interest credited as on 31st March of the year and the closing balance on that date.  Subscribers have to satisfy themselves as to the correctness of the Account Statements and errors should be brought to the notice of the Principal Accountant General within three months of receipt of the same. 

The slips for the year 2009-2010 are available in the website 

Missing Credits
      At times, schedules/vouchers are not received from the Treasuries for various reasons and as a result some of the subscriptions/refunds/arrears/withdrawals do not get posted in the account. These missing credits/debits can be located and included in the subscriber’s account after proper verification of the accounts rendered to PAG by the Drawing and Disbursing Officers/Treasuries subject to furnishing the following details duly certified by the Drawing and Disbursing Officers and the Treasury Officers. 

• Name of the Subscriber
• GPF Account number
• Name of the DDO under whom the official had served
• Amount of subscription/refund/withdrawal
• Salary month for which details are being furnished Head of Account (up to Detailed Head) under which salary was drawn
• Treasury/Sub Treasury where the salary was drawn
• Treasury voucher number / challan number
• Totals of the schedule amount enclosed in the particular voucher as noted on the abstract in case of credit.
• Date of payment of the voucher/remittance of the amount in the case of challan remittance
• Total amount of the GPF payment vouchers in respect of debits.

Missing Debits:            

1. Sanction received without corresponding debit. 
2. Refund received without corresponding debit. 

Facilities 

1. Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) 

Enquiries on GPF matters can also be made by calling in   040-23231212 

2. Grievance Redressal Cell 

To facilitate enquiries regarding GPF in the Office premises, a Grievance redressal cell is constituted.  The GDC representative assists the visitor in the following areas: 

• 1. Providing information regarding balances, missing credits/ debits in respect of GPF Account of the visitor.
• 2. Position of FW application.
• 3.Posting of missing credits on furnishing certified particulars of remittance.
• 4.Any correction to be incorporated in the database like name , DOB, DOJ etc., provided such information is supported by valid documents
• 5. Any other related matter
• 6.The representative can also be contacted on 9492233447.

3. Email facility :  pagaeap.gpf@gmail.com 

4. Fax                  :  040-23231937 

New  SMS facility 

            Plans are afoot to send Short Message Service (SMS) to subscribers whose mobile numbers are registered with PAG.  Particulars of subscription, withdrawals, on monthly basis would be intimated.  GPF subscribers are requested to furnish their mobile numbers through the screen provided in the web site. 

Do’s and Don’ts in the preparation of GPF Schedules by DDOs

Do’s 

1. Amounts of subscription should be rounded to whole rupees.
2. The account numbers should be arranged in serial order.
3. The guide letters (i.e. GA, PH, Medl etc.) should invariably be suffixed to the Account Numbers.
4. Reasons for discontinuance of subscriptions should be given (i.e. official “Proceeded on leave”, “Transferred to”_______Office-District, “Quit service, died or discontinued”.)
5. Against new names, it should be written that new name is a new subscriber or “New Subscriber” transferred from _______Office-District et.
6. The total of the schedule should be struck and written both in figures and words.
7. Month of recovery should be clearly indicated.
8. Schedules should be prepared neatly and legibly and separately for class IV employees.
9. Correct Classification should be recorded on schedules, challans and debit vouchers.
10. Subscriptions, refunds towards TAs should be separately indicated.  Refunds should be supported by installments and the amount of loan outstanding.
11. Schedules and Vouchers should be arranged in order as per the list.
12. Original authorizations should be enclosed to Debit Vouchers of Final Payment Cases.
13. The challans should contain the details of the amounts remitted thereon on overleaf instead of separate sheet enclosed to the challans.
14. 11 digit code should be recorded in schedules.
15. Uniform format of schedule for all recoveries of GPF (Viz. subscription, DA etc.) should be adopted.
16. TA / PFW sanction orders should invariably attached to the debit vouchers.
17. Debit vouchers should be entered as per LOP.
18. No debit voucher should be missing.
19. There should not be any overwriting on the debit vouchers.
20. Payments on Booster scheme should be made along with GPF Payments.
21. Classification of Booster Scheme payments should be done correctly.
22. Ensure that points indicated in the check list, to be kept in mind by DDOs while forwarding GPF Final Withdrawal applications, are compiled with.
23. Page-wise totals where necessary should be worked out
24. In case of challans, please mention the GPF account number and name of the subscriber in all copies.

Don’ts

1. There should be no overwritings.
2. Misclassification of the Credits / Debits of Class IV employees should not be done.

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ONLINE SUBMISSION OF GPF FINAL WITHDRAWAL AND PENSION
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