IN
accordance with amended para 69 (under para 83 of Employees' Provident Fund
Scheme, 1952), an International Worker is allowed to withdraw the full amount
standing to his credit in the fund:
• on retirement from service in the
establishment at any time after attaining the age of 58 years;
• on
retirement on account of permanent and total incapacity for work due to bodily
or mental infirmity duly certified by the medical officer;
• In respect
of a member covered under a Social Security Agreement entered into between the
Government of India and any other country, on such grounds as may be specified
in that agreement.
The provisions of Inoperative accounts are not
applicable in respect of International Workers.
This information was
given by the Union Minister for Labour & Employment Mr Mallikarjun Kharge in
reply to a written question in the Lok Sabha yesterday.
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