Section 12(2)(a) in State Bank of India Employees Provident Fund Regulations, 2015
(a)No advance shall be granted unless the trustees are satisfied that the member's pecuniary circumstances justify the advance and that it may be expended on any of the following objects namely :-(i)to pay expenses incurred in connection with the serious or prolonged illness of the member or any person actually dependent on him;(ii)to pay obligatory expenses on a scale appropriate to the member's status which by customary usage the member has to incur in connection with marriages, funerals or other ceremonies;(iii)to meet any other expenditure or liability which, in the opinion of the trustees, is extraordinary and beyond the ordinary capacity of the member to meet;