{"id":323899,"date":"2026-03-01T19:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:39:16","slug":"epf-dividends-cannot-be-fully-channeled-to-flexible-account-ceo-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323899\/","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He said dividend payments are calculated based on the balance in each account, and if a member has withdrawn funds from the account, leaving no balance, that account would not receive any dividend.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":323900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[32831,72,959,142366,30269,176,6008,61,60,174,175],"class_list":["post-323899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-account","tag-business","tag-ceo","tag-dividend","tag-epf","tag-finance","tag-flexible","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}