PLIGHT OF WIDOWS IN GETTING THEIR FIRST PENSION

Indian Military Veterans

PLIGHT OF WIDOWS  FOR GETTING THEIR FIRST PENSION                                                                                            

As per CDA cicular  213, instructions are given to Banks/ PDAs.

Where ever, Joint Notification and Join A/c is there, there is no need for Form-14.

The Bank/ PDA can  switch over to  Family pension on receipt of intimation/ application  along with Death certificate of pensioner.

But , what is happening is heartening-  Calling for personnel appearance of Widows,  and fresh Documents like Non-Marriage/ Non-employment/ Life certificate / Descriptive Roll and Declaration  with 2 witnesses, attestation by Gazetted Officers and so on.   Thus , delay in switching over.

To get all the documents prepared may take a long time, months. The widows have to take  somebody’s help in this regard, mostly they are not that educated.

 Then the branch will forward it  to their CPPC, and there, they may take their own time, some time raising observations  . Like wise  , the process takes a long time.

In some cases, according to Hindu  customs, the widows are not allowed to come out from home before 41 days  of death of husbands. Here, again  delay.

Due to all these happenings,  it takes about 3 to 6 months  to get the first pension.

 In case of no Joint Notification/ Joint account, it will take months together, some time more than a year or so  to  start first pension.

Till such time, the poor widows have to face the financial hardship  and untold mental agony.

In view of the above  practical happenings, we request the  Banks/ PDAs Authorities  to follow the latest CDA circular 213  and make efforts to switch over to Family pension as early as possible  with humanity . 

We also request our ESM associations/ Organisations  to take up  this Harassment with  respective authorities  where ever possible.

Ref:  CDA cirs : C132, 632, 633, 213

AND  Dept. of Pen & Pen Wel:  No: 12/4/2020-P&PW© 6300 dated 15-05-2020.