{"id":4387,"date":"2024-07-10T09:53:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:13:45","slug":"gepf-self-service-portal-back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/2024\/07\/10\/gepf-self-service-portal-back-online\/","title":{"rendered":"GEPF Self-service portal back online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) recently announced that the Self-service portal and App are back online, effective from Friday, 21 June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to the GEPF, the Self-service portal and App have been rebuilt to ensure more robust platforms that provide security measures that protect members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 information from any cyber-attack or intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the GEPF will be required to change their password, through the Self-service portal and App profile. However, it cannot be a member\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name or any of their family member&#8217;s name otherwise it will make such a password weak.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This measure has been introduced to affirm the identity of the members accessing the information.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Self-Service can be accessed through the GEPF app and the web portal through the GEPF website.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We urge members to be cautious and not share their password with any third party. Passwords should be always protected.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We further discourage members from allowing their device to save the password, unless the device has other security features to validate the user,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d read the GEPF statement.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the GEPF further warned its members to avoid accessing the app by connecting via any public Wi-Fi as this poses a security threat or risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download GEPF App<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GEPF has launched a self-service web system and mobile app to enable its members to access and update their information, as well as track pension or other related benefit claims<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please make sure to access the self-service site only on the GEPF website. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gepf.co.za\/\">https:\/\/www.gepf.co.za\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) recently announced that the Self-service portal and App are back online, effective from Friday, 21 June 2024. According to the GEPF, the Self-service portal and App have been rebuilt to ensure more robust platforms that provide security measures that protect members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 information from any cyber-attack or intrusion. Members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4396,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}