The Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare has made a lot of reforms in the recent times regarding the electronic pension payment order that promises ease of living for senior citizens.
Union minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that the government has decided to extend the payment of provisional pension up to a period of one year from the date of retirement of an employee in view of the COVID-19 situation.
Centre will make COVID-apt behaviour mass movement
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The Centre’s five-pronged strategy to deal with the merging crisis is ‘testing, tracing, treatment, Covid-19 appropriate behaviour and vaccination’.
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All arms of the government will go on a nationwide Covid-19 awareness ‘mass movement’ following a surge in the pandemic. ‘Dawai bhi, kadai bhi’ and ‘mask nahi, toh service nahi’ will be key to the new drive to be carried out by every government department.
Directions were given to all department secretaries to go on mission mode to amplify Covid-19 awareness and vaccination campaigns at a meeting chaired by the Cabinet Secretary on Tuesday. The Centre’s five-pronged strategy to deal with the merging crisis is ‘testing, tracing, treatment, Covid-19 appropriate behaviour and vaccination’. Saturated messaging, fines and denial of services for not wearing masks are among plans.
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Regulating service matters covered under NPS.
Detail guideline for processing various benefits.
New Delhi: The Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare (DoPPW) has issued notification for Central Government employees for regulating the service matters of Central Government employees covered under the National Pension System.
The New Defined Contribution based Pension Scheme was introduced vide Department of Economic Affairs Notification No. 5/7/2003-ECB & PR dated 22nd December, 2003.Thereafter the activities under the National Pension System viz. registration, contribution, investment, fund management, withdrawals, annuity, etc. are regulated by the PFRDA Act, 2013.
However, there were several service matters pertaining the NPS employees which were not covered by the PFRDA Act. Therefore, in order to streamline the implementation of NPS, DoPPW initiated the proposal for framing of separate service rules for NPS employees.
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The DoPPW has issued a clarification on the amount admissible in case a child is eligible to draw two family pensions after the death of his or her parents.
Singh said that the amount of both the family pensions will now be restricted to Rs 1,25,000 per month, which is more than two and half times higher than the earlier limit.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday stated that in a far-reaching reform regarding family pensions the upper ceiling has been raised from Rs 45,000 to Rs 1,25,000 per month. He said the move will bring “Ease of Living” for the family members of the deceased employees and would provide adequate financial security to them.