Enhancement of Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA) from Rs.1000 to Rs.3000 per month for Railway pensioners & family pensioners – RSCWS
RAILWAY SENIOR CITIZENS
WELFARE SOCIETY
(Estd. 1991, Regd. No. 1881 — Under Registration of Societies Act),
No. RSCWS/CHD/ Memo /
2022-14
Dated: 13-5-2022
Secretary Finance (Expenditure),
North Block, New
Delhi — 110001
Secretary, Department of Public Grievances,
Adm. Reforms &
Pensions, 5th Floor, Patel Bhavan, Parliament Street, New Delhi — 110001
Dear Sir,
Sub: Enhancement of Fixed
Medical Allowance (FMA) for pensioners & family pensioners.
Ref: Recommendations of
110th report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on “Pensioners
Grievances-Impact of Pension Adalats and Centralized Pensioners Grievance
Redress and Monitoring System (CPENGRAMS)’”
1. We seek your kind
intervention to consider and revise Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA) as per the
recommendations of 110th report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on
“Pensioner’s Grievances-Impact of Pension Adalats and Centralized Pensioners
Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPENGRAMS)”.
2. At present Fixed Medical
Allowance (FMA) Rs.1000 per month is granted to the Railway pensioners/Family
Pensioners residing in areas beyond 2.5 Kms of Railway Hospital/Health Unit for
meeting expenditure on their day-to-day medical expenses that do not require
hospitalization.
3. The present rate of
Rs.1000 per month is inadequate considering the increased cost of medicine and
medical facilities.
4. In para 3.21 of 110th
report of the said Committee on “Pensioner’s Grievances-Impact of Pension
Adalats and Centralized Pensioners Grievance Redress and Monitoring System
(CPENGRAMS)” submitted to Parliament on 10th December 2021, it was
recommended that:
“The Committee takes note of
the fact that Fixed Medical Allowance is granted to pensioners who
reside outside the CGHS areas for meeting expenditure on day-to-day
medical expenses (OPD) that do not require hospitalization. The
Committee also takes note of the request of Pensioners’ Associations
for enhancement of Fixed Medical Allowance from Rs 1000 to Rs 3000 per
month as most pensioners are suffering from different diseases at old
age and are unable to manage with meagre pension as CGHS hospital is not
available in every town. The Committee recommends DoPPW to take up this issue
of enhancement of Fixed Medical Allowance with the Finance Ministry as Rs
1000 is a very meagre amount for an old age pensioner and apprise the
views of the Finance Ministry to the Committee in its Action Taken Replies”.
5. It is, therefore,
requested that Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA) may please be enhanced to Rs.3000
per month.
Yours’ faithfully,
(Harchandan Singh),
General Secretary, RSCWS
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