Zerodha IEPF FAQs: unclaimed shares and dividends

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) is a statutory fund under Section 125 of the Companies Act 2013, administered by the IEPF Authority under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, into which a company must transfer any share whose dividend has gone unpaid or unclaimed for seven consecutive years, together with the unclaimed dividend itself, under Sections 124(5) and 124(6). For a Zerodha client this transfer is the company’s act, not the broker’s, and the shares are recoverable by filing Form IEPF-5 on the MCA portal after obtaining an entitlement letter from the company.

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Zerodha IEPF FAQs: unclaimed shares and dividends