The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions is the
coordinating agency of the Central Government in personnel matters
specially issues concerning recruitment, training, career development,
staff welfare as well as the post retirement dispensation. The Ministry
is also concerned with the process of responsive people-oriented modern
administration. Allocation of Business Rules defines the work allotted
for the Ministry. The Ministry comprises of the following three
Departments.
Department of Personnel & Training (DOPT)
Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare (DOP&PW)
Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG)
During the year 2013, the Department of Persmin initiated to simply the procedure for Payment of Family Pension…
Simplification of Procedure for Payment of Family Pension
The Government has decided that an employee/pensioner/family pensioner
may at anytime make a request to the Appointing Authority for advance
approval to the grant of family pension for life to a permanently
disabled child/sibling or dependent parents. On the basis of this
approval, authorisation shall be made in the original Pension Payment
Order (PPO) at the time of retirement or by issuing a revised authority.
The permanently disabled child/sibling/ dependent parents will receive
family pension at the appropriate time, i.e., after the death of
employee/pensioner and/or after the death/ineligibility of any other
member in the family who was eligible to receive family pension prior to
the disabled child/sibling/dependent parents.
Where there are other eligible prior claimants to family pension, the
names of disabled child/children/dependent parents/permanently disabled
sibling will be added to the PPO issued to the preceding eligible family
pensioner. Family pension to these permanently disabled
child/children/siblings/
Grant of Family Pension to the family of missing employee/pensioner
Family pension is payable to the family of a Government employee or
pensioner after his death. Difficulties in payment arise when a
Government Servant or pensioner goes missing. Clarificatory instructions
were issued by the Central Government for payment of benefits in such
cases. According to these instructions, the family must lodge a report
with the concerned police station and obtain a report from the police,
that the employee or pensioner or family pensioner has not been traced
despite all efforts made by them. The report may be a First Information
Report or any other report such as a Daily Diary or General Diary Entry.
The family can apply for the grant of family pension, amount of salary
due, leave encashment due and the amount of GPF and gratuity (whatever
has not already been received) to the Head of Office of the organisation
where the employee or pensioner had last served, six months after
lodging of police report. The amount of salary due, leave encashment due
and the amount of GPF will be paid to the family in the first instance
as per the nominations made by the employee or pensioner on filling of a
police report and submission of an indemnity bond.
Source : CGEN.in