{"id":509244,"date":"2026-03-02T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:22:22","slug":"epf-dividends-cannot-be-fully-channeled-to-flexible-account-ceo-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509244\/","title":{"rendered":"EPF dividends cannot be fully channeled to Flexible account &#8211; CEO | Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE proposal that the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) dividend for the financial year 2025 be channelled entirely to Account 3 (Flexible) cannot be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Its Chief Executive Officer, Ahmad Zulqarnain Onn, said this is because, in terms of the act, it needs to be credited to the proper account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot take dividends from other accounts and channel them into Account 3,&#8221; he explained during a media briefing on the dividend announcement today.<\/p>\n<p>He said dividend payments are calculated based on the balance in each account, and if a member has withdrawn funds from the account, leaving no balance, that account would not receive any dividend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have savings in all three accounts, the dividend or returns will be based on the balance in each account,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Arau Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim called for all EPF dividends to be channelled into the flexible account (Account 3).<\/p>\n<p>He said the move would help the people in preparation for the upcoming Hari Raya celebrations. \u2013 February 28, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE proposal that the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) dividend for the financial year 2025 be channelled entirely to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[34834,45,49,48,3698,102468,28516,133,3906,131,132],"class_list":["post-509244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-account","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ceo","tag-dividend","tag-epf","tag-finance","tag-flexible","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}