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Lockdown impact: Over 650,000 workers dig into EPF as incomes dry up

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New Delhi: More than 650,000 people have dug into their employee provident fund (EPF) savings to offset the income loss caused by the lockdown imposed to check the spread of the coronavirus.

As many as 30,000-35,000 people are withdrawing their provident fund savings on an average working day in April, an indication of the hardship the working class is facing.

Around ₹2,700 crore has already been withdrawn under the newly-facilitated pandemic rules, according to data from retirement fund manager Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). “This includes both money withdrawn from the retirement fund corpus directly under EPFO and the corpus managed by company PF trusts.

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