EPFO settles social security benefits for family of MRPL fire victim
The EPFO Mangaluru office has settled social security benefits, including pension and insurance, for the family of a contract worker who died in a fire at an MRPL unit. Officials personally delivered the pension payment order to the family.
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The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Mangaluru Regional Office, has settled the social security benefits payable to the family of MRPL contract employee Manish Karkada, who succumbed to a fire in an MRPL unit on September 30.
In a press release, the regional office said it has settled the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and the Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance amounts payable to the family members. A monthly pension was sanctioned and it commenced from Thursday.
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