Ensure family pension begins within 1 month of receiving claim: Centre to all depts.

The Centre has asked all its departments to ensure that family pension begins within a month of receiving claims from the kin of a deceased government employeeThe Department of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare has also come out with detailed notes one for employees under Old Pension Scheme and the other for those under National Pension System NPS to facilitate expeditious disbursement of all entitlements of the family on the death of government staffIn addition employees contributions and returns thereon in the NPS pension corpus shall also be paid to the family member it saidThe head of office will start the process to sanction family pension and simultaneously close Permanent Retirement Account Number PRAN under the NPS Government contribution and returns thereon would be transferred into the government account the order saidThe remaining amount would be paid in a lump sum to the nominee or legal heir as per PFRDA regulations it saidNational Movement for Old Pension Scheme NMOPS Delhi unit president Manjeet Singh Patel who has been fighting for the scrapping of the new pension system to ensure employees get benefits of the old pension scheme said the new order will provide expeditious relief to the affected familiesWe are very happy that the government has decided to give an employees contribution and returns on it in hisher NPS pension corpus in addition to the family pensionWe also request the Centre to ensure that employees get sole right on their entire contribution and returns excepts the government contribution in NPS corpus also so that they can withdraw it as and when they want Patel saidNMOPS is a nonprofit organisation with over 13 lakh central and state government employees as its membersThe Department of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare order said it was noticed that the Covid19 pandemic has claimed the lives of several government employees during the recent surgeIn many cases the deceased employees were the sole breadwinners of their family and the casualties have left families devastated and in an urgent need of funds for livelihoodIt is therefore incumbent on the government to ensure that the family pension and other entitlements in respect of the deceased employees are released to their families expeditiously it said in the order issued on ThursdayIt has asked all departments to strictly comply with the rules and instructions and to ensure that payment of provisional family pension is commenced by the head of office immediately on receipt of the claim with death certificate from the eligible family member and payment of provisional death gratuity is made to the nomineesfamily members immediately after forwarding the case to the Pay and Accounts OfficeSimultaneously the action may be taken on a priority basis for disbursement of regular family pension through the bank and for payment of other entitlements of the family on the death of the government employee the department saidIt may be ensured that the PPO for family pension is issued and disbursement of regular family pension is commenced by the bank not later than one month of the receipt of the claim for family pension it saidAll departments have been asked to submit a monthly report comprising details like name and designation of government servant died since January 1 2020 the date on which provisional family pension and provisional gratuity were sanctioned the date on which PPO was issued the date on which other entitlements were paid and reasons for the delays if any and remedial action taken to avoid delays in future the order saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever