{"id":1618,"date":"2013-02-26T01:26:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raagvamdatt.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2013-02-26T01:27:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:57:34","slug":"pf-interest-rate-for-2012-2013-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/pf-interest-rate-for-2012-2013-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"PF Interest Rate for 2012-2013 Increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move this is good for most salaried people of India, the interest rate on Provident Fund accounts has been increased for the year 2012-2013.<\/p>\n<p>Please read on for more details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Provident Fund (PF) Interest Rate for 2012-2013<\/h2>\n<p>The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has announced that the rate of interest for PF account for the year 2012-2013 would be 8.5% per year.<\/p>\n<p>This has been increased from the 8.25% rate which was applicable for 2011-2012. However, it is still much lower than the 9.5% interest paid in 2010-2011.<\/p>\n<p>The rate was expected to be increased to 8.75%, but it was kept at 8.5% to avoid any deficit for the EPFO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>PF Interest Rate History<\/h2>\n<p>In the recent past, the PF interest rate has peaked at 12%! This fabulous rate was applicable in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a graph that shows the historical PF interest rates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1619\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1619\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1619   \" title=\"Provident Fund (PF) Interest Rate History\" alt=\"Provident Fund (PF) Interest Rate History\" src=\"http:\/\/raagvamdatt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PF-Interest-Rate-History.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PF-Interest-Rate-History.jpg 546w, http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PF-Interest-Rate-History-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Provident Fund (PF) Interest Rate History<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move this is good for most salaried people of India, the interest rate on Provident Fund accounts has been increased for the year 2012-2013. Please read on for more details. &nbsp; Provident Fund (PF) Interest Rate for 2012-2013 The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has announced that the rate of interest for PF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[21,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raagvamdatt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}