This is a case of a Army officers widow who was helped by Veterans Pension Group to get her correct pension.
The widow was a Professor in AFMC. She lost her husband in 1965 and she was sanctioned Special Family Pension (SFP) and is in her early eighties now.
Her case came to the notice of Cdr R W Pathak (Retd) when he was helping out one of the banks branch with calculations of arrears of Circular 568.
The widow was helped to get her corr PPO for LFP and has since been paid her arrears of Rs 71 Lakhs approx.
All War widows from 1947 to 1972 who had been sanctioned SFP were to get
LFP after the issue of GOI issued orders vide G.O.I, M.O.D. Letter No.
200847/Pen-C/71 dated 24.2.72. The orders stated that widows had to apply for this grant of LFP. How would any widow know of this letter is a question no one was able to answer. A sample check via RTI to Department of Sainik Welfare Maharashtra for details of number of War widows affected by the 1972 letter showed that whilst the Director DSW had no records of war widows from 1947 there was a discepency of 301 war widows whose details were missing from the numbers provided bt Director DSW and various ZSWO and they had taken no action to find out the status and ensure correct pension to War widows despite having a special pension cell working since 2013.
As a result of thsi RTI a total of 7 cases of affected war widows were resolved .
However it was found that whilst some widows were actually issued Corr PPO for LFP many were probably not.The matter was taken up with DESW and PCDA and on 30 Jan 2019 a meeting was called by Secretary DESW for sorting out this issue. During the meeting the representatives of CGDA and PCDA himself agreed that there was a problem. The AHQ representative agreed to provide details of 25000 War widows to PCDA so that details of pension being could be checked. The meeting was attended by representatives of War Widows Association and Cdr Pathak (Rep Veterans Pension Group).
It is hoped that with this many more cases of wrong payment of pension to widows will come to light
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