Life Certificate for retired employees to be
submitted in November every year
Retired Central Government employees, pensioners and those
drawing family pension will have to submit Life Certificates at the banks where
they draw their pensions.
Until about a few years ago, pensioners had to go to their
respective banks in order to withdraw their monthly pensions. Usually there
would always be some clerical glitches or delays in distributing the pension
funds causing immense hardship to the pensioners. In order to rectify this
hurdle, the Government began distributing pension via ATM cards through their
respective banks. Pensioners didn’t have to go to the banks anymore to collect
their pensions. But, once every year, they are required to go to the banks in
person, sign and withdraw the pensions.
From 2012 onwards, it has been made mandatory for pensioners
to submit Life Certificates in revised format in the month of November. The
banks have to be informed immediately if the pensioner dies. In order to avoid
potential malpractices and cheatings, pensioners are asked to submit life
certificates, in order to prove that they are alive.
Now, the Central Government has decided to introduce the life
certificate to go with digital formation.
‘Jeevan Pramaan Scheme’ an Aadhaar card based digital life
certificate for Central Govt Pensioners and family pensioners introduced by the
Department of Electronics and Information.
The modern life certificate brings the details of the
pensioner including biometric information. The complete data will be transfered
to central database on real-time basis. According to the information received,
pension disbursing agency to access digital life certificate. This will
conclusively establish that the pensioner was alive at the time of
authentication.
The software application system will be made available to
pensioners and other stakeholders on a large scale at no extra cost. It can be
operated on a personal computer or a smartphone, along with an inexpensive
biometric reading device. This facility will also be made available at Common
Service Centres being operated under the National e-Governance Plan, for the
benefit of pensioners residing in remote and inaccessible areas.
Source: 7th Pay Commission News
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