Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 22

The Employees Provident Fund Office of the Ludhiana region has cleared Covid claims worth over Rs105 crore in over one year. These claims are related to special Covid requests given by people.

Regional Provident Fund Commissioner Dheeraj Gupta told The Tribune that employees of the PF Department being frontline workers had been attending the request of Covid claims every working day and most of the Covid claims were being cleared in a few days of receiving the applications.

Gupta said Covid-19 advance claims of Rs70.68 crore were disbursed to 39,292 persons in the period between April 1, 2020, and May 19, 2021.

Besides, 673 claims of Rs13.90 crore related to the Employees Deposit Linked Insurance (EDLI) scheme were also cleared, he said, adding that 1,899 pension claims worth Rs5.87 crore were also disbursed amid the pandemic.

“We have given utmost priority to death claims. In Covid times, 954 death claims worth Rs16.36 crore have also been cleared. These were cleared within a few days of receiving the applications,” said the PF Commissioner.