Pension, gratuity payment: Indian Govt issues big order - Trend.Az
Date
3/13/2022 12:22:43 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The government has issued an important order highlighting key
rules pertaining to provisional pension, gratuity and payment of
interest. This comes as a relief for pensioners whose regular
pension gets delayed after retirement, Trend reports citing India Today .
'Payment of Provisional Pension and gratuity under Rule 62 of
the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 in case of delay
in issue of PPO authorizing regular pension,' the government stated
in the office memorandum dated February 23, 2022.
According to Rule 65 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 also
provides that in all cases where pension or family pension or
gratuity has not been sanctioned or is delayed, interest will be
paid on arrears of pension or family pension or gratuity.
According to Rule 62 of CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, payment of
provisional pension must not continue beyond the period of six
months from the date of retirement of the government.
In view of the provisions of Rule 62 of CCS (Pension) Rules,
2021, the Accounts Officer has to treat the provisional pension as
final and issue a pension payment order immediately on the expiry
of the period of six months provided in the rule.
The government has emphasized that pension should not be
discontinued under any circumstances if a PPO for regular pension
could not be issued by the Accounts Officer till the expiry of the
aforesaid period of six months.
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