Old PF number formats don’t consist of Zeroes in front of the establishment code number. If you want to easily identify the old PF number format and new PF number format by just observing the Zeroes. There is no PF extension number in old PF number formats. The main difference between the old PF number format and the new PF number format is the EPF extension number. Old PF Number Format Vs New PF Number Format For most of the organizations, PF extension number is Three Zeroes, for some organizations the last Zero will be replaced by alphabets like A, B, C, D…Ġ000123: These last 7 numbers are the actual PF number of the employee which is different for every employee working in the same organization. Here BAN means Bandra PF office.Ġ0000064: These Seven digits followed by office code are the establishment/employer PF codeĠ00: These Three Zeroes are establishment extension.
Here MH means MaharashtraīAN: The Three characters followed by region code is office code.
MH: The first Two characters are region code.
For example MH/BAN/0000064/000/0000123 is PF number of an employee who is working in Maharashtra and belongs to Bandra PF office
