kolkata the employees provident fund epf is expected to retain the interest rate for its six crore account holders at 85 per cent in 201011 with a formal announcement likely to be made in augusti hope that the recommendation of 85 per cent by the finance and investment committee of the epfo will be retained central provident fund commissioner s chatterjee told reportersthe epf rate will hopefully be finalised in the next epf board meeting which is expected in august he saidasked if there was any shortfall in return from the current payout of 85 per cent chatterjee said there was no deficitasked how the epfo was maintaining a decent return chatterjee said as we do not trade with investments the yield to maturity from securities bought at par in the past are mitigating the impact of low returns from current investmentscurrently the epf has onethird of its total rs 300000 crore corpus in a special deposit of the government which yields only 8 per cent interest