PRESS NEWS
Ministry of
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
UNION MINISTER DR JITENDRA
SINGH SAYS, RULES FOR PROVISIONAL PENSION LIBERALISED AND TIMELINE EXTENDED FOR
EASE OF BENEFICIARIES DUE TO PANDEMIC
Posted On: 05 MAY 2021 4:11PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of
North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions,
Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today said that Government has decided
to extend the payment of provisional pension up to a period of one year
from the date of retirement in view of the pandemic situation. At a meeting
held online with senior officers of the Department of Pension and DARPG, the
Minister said that provisional family pension was also liberalized. He said
that instructions were issued that family pension may be sanctioned immediately
on receipt of a claim for family pension and death certificate from the
eligible family member, without waiting for forwarding of the family pension
case to Pay & Accounts Office.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, similarly orders have been issued to
extend the benefit of lump sum compensation to the NPS employees also, if they
suffer a disability in the performance of duty and are retained in Government
service in spite of such disablement. According to the CCS (EOP) Rules, if a
Government servant suffers a disability due to an injury or disease in the
performance of duty and is retained in Government service in spite of such
disablement, a lump sum compensation is paid to him in lieu of the disability
element of the disability pension.
The Minister said that based on earlier orders and rules,
Central Civil Government servants who were boarded out, prior to 01.01.2006,
with a qualifying service of less than ten years and were in receipt of only
the disability element of disability pension, would also be eligible for the
service element of disability pension, w.e.f. 01.01.2006, in addition to the
disability element.
Moreover, to ensure timely credit of pension in cases, where
PPO (Pension Payment Order) has been issued but not sent to CPAO or banks due
to lock-down, the matter was taken up with Controller General of Accounts (CGA)
to issue necessary directive to CPAO and CPPCs of banks to use electronic modes
during the unprecedented situation of COVID 19 pandemic till normalcy returns.
In some cases, Government servants have died after retirement
without submitting the pension papers. In order to avoid hardships to the
families of such Government servants, instructions have been given for issue of
Pension Payment Order for release of arrears of pension (from the date of
retirement till the date of death of retired Government servant) in all such
cases and for grant of family pension to the family member from the date of
death.
Dr Jitendra Singh also informed that Bhavishya 8.0 was
released in August, 2020 and this new feature PUSHES the ePPO in Digi locker as
a permanent record. Bhavishya is the first application of its kind to use the
Digilocker Id based PUSH Technology.
India Posts and Payment Bank (IPPB) with its 1,89,000 Postmen
&GraminDakSevaks under the Department of Posts roped in to collect DLC from
home. Approximately 1,48,325 Central Government Pensioners have already availed
this facility till now.
DoPPW also roped in an Alliance comprising 12 Public Sector
Banks which does “Doorstep Banking” for its customers in 100 major cities of
the country for including the collection of Life Certificate also under this
service.
DoPPW advised all the Pension Disbursing Banks to adopt the
Video based Customer Identification Process (V-CIP) as an additional facility
for obtaining a Life Certificate from the pensioners, within permissible RBI
guidelines. UCO Bank has become a pioneer in this area. SNC (Release ID:
1716217)
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