Retirement fund body EPFO will soon automate the process for settling final provident fund withdrawal claims, fast-tracking the money transfer to the applicant’s bank accounts, a top official said on Wednesday.The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has more than seven crore members.At present, partial or advance withdrawal claims of up to Rs 5 lakh are settled through auto mode, and the deadline for the auto-settlement mode is three days from filing the claim.Speaking at the ASSOCHAM’s National Seminar on New Labour Codes, Central Provident Fund Commissioner, EPFO, Ramesh Krishnamurthi, said, “We are also going to initiate, as far as feasible, auto-settlement for now…which was (available) only for advances. Now we are going in for auto-settlement of final withdrawals.”He further added that the EPFO is going in for auto-settlement and auto-transfer of provident fund accounts in case a member shifts employers.”You don’t have to file a form anymore. We try to auto-migrate your accounts to your latest member account,” he stated.Talking about fully operationalising four labour codes by publishing rules under those, he stated that there has been a huge attempt to simplify, codify, standardise definitions and other terms.The four new labour codes have already been notified by the government on May 8.Krishnamurthi said that the next set of notifications that pertain specifically to the EPFO would be published shortly.Under the new legal framework, the three schemes – EPF Scheme 1952, Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme, 1976, and Employees Pension Scheme 1995 – will also be renotified.