Revision of Family Pension

No.1/21/91-P&PW(E) (Pt.) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare) Third Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan, New Delhi

Dated: 15th January, 1999

OFFICE MEMORANDUM Payment of family pension to handicapped children - Procedure for.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department O.M.No.1(21)/P&PW/91-(E) dated 20th January, 1993 prescribing procedures for intimation regarding names of eligible handicapped children, for inclusion in the PPO, by the pensioner. Representations have been received about making eligible the spouse to furnish the details of eligible children, including handicapped children, to the pension sanction authority where the same was not furnished by the employee/pensioner. The matter has been considered in this Department and it has been decided to allow the spouse of the deceased pensioner/Government servant, if the details of such children were not furnished by the latter, to furnish the details of eligible children to the pension sanctioning authority as it will help in settling family pension cases. This OM issues in consultation with Comptroller and Auditor General of India vide their U.O.No.685-AC-II/288-97-II dated 24.10.1998. Hindi version of this OM is enclosed.

(RATTAN LAL) Deputy Secretary to the Government of India

To All Ministries/Departments of the Government of India. Copy to :  Office of Comptroller & Auditor General of India, 10, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi (with 200 spare copies).

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (ii)]

No.1/9/96-P&PW(E) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare) Third Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi-110003

Dated: 21st January, 1999

NOTIFICATION S.O._______ In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 read with clause (5) of Article 148 of the Constitution and after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in relation to persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1972, namely: -

1 These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Pension) First Amendment Rules, 1999. They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2 In the proviso to rule 54 sub-rule (6) of the Central Civil Services (Pension) rules, 1972,- After the words "disability of mind" wherever they occur, the words "including mentally retarded" shall be inserted; After clause (v), the following clause shall be inserted, namely;- "(vi) in the case of a mentally retarded son or daughter, the family pension shall be payable to a person nominated by the Government servant or the pensioner, as the case may be, and in case no such nomination has been furnished to the Head of Office by such Government servant or pensioner during his life time, to the person nominated by the spouse of such Government servant or family pensioner, as the case may be, later on."

(RATTAN LAL) Deputy Secretary to the Government of India.

Foot Note: The Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 were published as S.O.No.934 dated 01.04.1972. The Fourth Edition (corrected upto July, 1988) of the rules was published in 1988. The rules were subsequently amended vide Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare notification given below:-

S. No. Notification No. Date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 S.O. No. 254 S.O. No.970 S.O. No. 2467 S.O. No. 899 S.O. No. 1454 S.O. No. 2329 S.O. No. 3269 S.O. No. 3269 S.O. No.3273 S.O. No.409 S.O. No.464 S.O. No. 2287 S.O. No. 2740 GSR No. 677 GSR No.. 39 GSR No. 55 GSR No. 570 S.O. No. 258 S.O. No. 258 S.O. No. 1673 GSR No. 449 S.O. No. 1984 GSR No. 389(E) S.O. No. 1775 04-02-89 06-05-89 07-10-89 14-04-90 26-05-90 08-09-90 08-12-90 08-12-90 08-12-90 09-12-91 16-02-91 07-09-91 02-11-91 07-12-91 01-02-92 15-02-92 19-12-92 13-02-93 13-02-93 07-08-93 11-09-93 25-09-93 18-04-94 19-07-97

(RATTAN LAL) Deputy Secretary to the Government of India.

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