How EPF discriminates against those who need it the most

For a vast number of the salaried, the employee provident fund (EPF) is the only social security net they have. But the EPF rules are such that they tend to discriminate against the young and vulnerable — those who have not yet worked for five years without a break. It took a pandemic to expose how this hurts the private-sector salaried workers most when they were hit hard.

from Wealth-Economic Times https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/save/how-epf-discriminates-against-those-who-need-it-the-most/articleshow/80497601.cms