{"id":11778,"date":"2006-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/19\/flexible-withdrawal-for-members\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T00:00:00","slug":"flexible-withdrawal-for-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.rakansarawak.com\/?p=11778","title":{"rendered":"Flexible Withdrawal for Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent&quot; style=&quot;text-indent: 0in;&quot; align=&quot;justify&quot;><font face=&quot;Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;><span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;>Employees<br \/>\nProvident Fund (EPF) recently introduces flexible withdrawal for its members.<br \/>\nNow they can withdraw their saving from Account 2 for housing and education<br \/>\npurposes.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div align=&quot;justify&quot;>\n<\/div>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot; align=&quot;justify&quot;><font face=&quot;Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;>EPF members are also given the flexibility to either<br \/>\nhelp their husband or wife to reduce or pay off the housing loan though they<br \/>\nare not the joint owners of the house. Members must fulfil the conditions that<br \/>\nthey do not have any housing loan, that their husband or wife is the owner and<br \/>\nborrower for the house, that the house is under mortgaged loan and the member<br \/>\nmust show proof of their marriage.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div align=&quot;justify&quot;>\n<\/div>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot; align=&quot;justify&quot;><font face=&quot;Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;>Under Education Withdrawal, members are allowed to<br \/>\nwithdraw saving for their own or their children\u2019s studies at Diploma level. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div align=&quot;justify&quot;>\n<\/div>\n<p class=&quot;MsoBodyText&quot; align=&quot;justify&quot;><font face=&quot;Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;><span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;>Previously, members were only allowed to<br \/>\nwithdraw from Account 2 to reduce or pay off the housing loan once in three<br \/>\nyears. For Education Withdrawal, members were only allowed to withdraw for<br \/>\ntheir own studies at Diploma level, and for degree levels and above, for their<br \/>\nchildren.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div align=&quot;justify&quot;>\n<\/div>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot; align=&quot;justify&quot;><font face=&quot;Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;>The changes are part of EPF\u2019s efforts to respond to<br \/>\nthe needs of its 5.2 million active members nationwide.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div align=&quot;justify&quot;>\n<\/div>\n<p class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent&quot; style=&quot;text-indent: 0in;&quot; align=&quot;justify&quot;><font face=&quot;Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;><span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;>EPF is the<br \/>\nMalaysian national saving scheme that provides financial guarantee for<br \/>\nretirement purposes. 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