Employees provident Fund

Financing Education

How to Make Withdrawal

To apply for EPF education withdrawal, you need to complete relevant application
forms provided by the EPF. The completed forms, together with the required
supporting documents, can be submitted either over the counter or by mail.

It is important that you fill up the right forms correctly and make sure that all your
supporting documents are supplied and in order. This is to avoid unnecessary delays
in processing your application, if not rejected all together.

Please take note that thumbprint impressions are required for the application form
and MyKad photocopy. You must use the thumbprint pad that is specifically meant
for making thumbprint impressions. Use of other types of materials such as the
inkpad for rubber stamps is not acceptable by the EPF.

If there are differences in details of your records, you may submit the following
supporting documents:

• Birth certificate, if the difference is in your stated birth date; and

• Certification letter from the National Registration Department.
List of Documents Required

The list of documents required are as in the table:

FIRST TIME SUBSEQUENT NOTES

NO. MAIN DOCUMENTS APPLICATION APPLICATION

1. Form KWSP 9H (AHL). √ √ Appendix 1

2. (a) Public Identification Card/ Malaysian Identification Card Appendix 2

(myKAD)/ Military Identification Card/ Permanent Resident
Identification Card (myPR)
OR
Police Identification Card affixed with your right and left
thumbprints on its copy and a letter from your employer confirming
that your police number and Identification Card number refer to
√ √
the same person.

(b) A passport if you are a Non-Malaysian citizen who has

become an EPF member before August 1998.
3. Course/ Study Offer Letter To be provided
√ by EP

4. Student’s Enrollment Confirmation Letter To be provided

• To follow the format provided by the EPF, except for the by EP
overseas institute of higher learning. √ √
• The date of the letter does not exceed 6 months from the date
the withdrawal application is received.
5. Recognition or Accreditation Letter for Course
• The public institutes of higher learning AND private
institutes of higher learning which already have university /
university college / overseas branch campus status which
have been listed by the EPF are exempted.
(a) Academic OR Professional Courses
A valid approval letter to conduct stipulate course issued by
the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Higher
Education or Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA);
(b) Professional OR Skill-based Courses √ √
Course recognition letter as issued by the Training Division,
Public Services Department (PSD) OR any Professional Body
recognized by the government to be equivalent with Diploma
or better.
(c) Vocational Courses
Course accreditation letter as issued by the Department of
Skills Development, Ministry of Human Resources and
recognized to be equivalent to a Diploma (level 4) OR a
Bachelors Degree (level 5).
6. Copy of the latest examination result (students of public institutes
of higher learning are exempted).
• For local and overseas private institutes of higher learning √ √
students who are at least in their second semester / second
year of study.
7. Proof of Qualification according to allowed education levels √ Copy of
Certificate of academic qualifications according to education levels Certificate
such as:
(a) Diploma and Bachelors Degree Level (For CFP
• SPM OR STPM OR Diploma certificates or equivalent Withdrawal at
least a
(b) Masters Degree Level
Diploma)
• Diploma / Advanced Diploma OR Bachelors Degree
or other equivalent qualifications
(c) Doctor Of Philosophy
 • Masters Degree
Note:
However, local students of private institutes of higher learning are
required to produce supporting documents if:
SPM results are with less than 3 credits as required by
Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Higher
Education
(a) Confirmation letter from institutes of higher learning regarding
student’s terms of enrollment; AND
(b) Any other academic qualification paper that can support the
application (if any)
Enrollment eligibility based on working experience
(a) Employer’s confirmation letter stating experience; AND
(b) Confirmation letter from institutes of higher learning regarding
student’s terms of enrollment; AND
(c) Any other academic qualification paper that can support the
application (if any)
8. Interview form (interview session with the student which will be To be
conducted by an EPF officer who will complete this form) completed by
• For overseas private institutes of higher learning EPF
students only √
• Exemption on subsequent application if the student is
still studying the same course and in the same institutes of
higher learning.

Note:

Members who wish to submit their applications through post must complete Application for
Member’s Registration and Amendment of Member’s Particulars Form (KWSP3) and
attach it together with the application form. Members are advised to read the instructions
in the guide carefully before filling in the form.