STAFF RULINGS – 81. LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION
217. What is the definition of family for LTC?
(i) Spouse of the Government servant and two surviving unmarried children or step children.
(ii) Married daughters who have been divorced, abandoned or separated from their husbands and widowed daughters residing with and wholly dependent on the Government Servant.
(iii) Parents and/or step parents residing with and wholly dependent on the Government Servant.
(iv) Unmarried minor brothers as well as unmarried, divorced, abandoned/seprated from their husbands and widowed sisters residing with and wholly dependent on the Government servant provided their parents are either not alive and are themselves wholly dependent on the Government Servant.
(Rule 4 of CCS (LTC) Rules 1988)
217. What is the definition of family for LTC?
(i) Spouse of the Government servant and two surviving unmarried children or step children.
(ii) Married daughters who have been divorced, abandoned or separated from their husbands and widowed daughters residing with and wholly dependent on the Government Servant.
(iii) Parents and/or step parents residing with and wholly dependent on the Government Servant.
(iv) Unmarried minor brothers as well as unmarried, divorced, abandoned/seprated from their husbands and widowed sisters residing with and wholly dependent on the Government servant provided their parents are either not alive and are themselves wholly dependent on the Government Servant.
(Rule 4 of CCS (LTC) Rules 1988)
218. What are the dependency criteria?
A member of the family whose income from all sources, including pension, temporary increase in pension does not exceed Rs. 3500 from 1.9.2008 (Now Rs.9000) and Dearness relief there on is deemed to be wholly dependent on the Government servant.
219. Whether the family can perform the journey separately?
Where a Government servant and his family perform journeys separately, there is no objection for preferring separate claims. In each case, however, the claim should be for both outward and inward journeys.
220. Whether it is admissible that some members can visit Home town while other family members visits any place in India in the same two year period?
Since the LTC facility can be availed by the Government Servant and various members of his family in separate batches, there may not be any objections in allowing home town LTC and the LTC to any place in India to different members of the family in respect of the same block of years.
(DOPT No. 1138/89-Est (A) dated 11.05.1989)
221. The spouse who is a pensioner has been denied to avail LTC on the pretext that the retired persons are having income more than the prescribed dependency limit. Is it correct?
No. LTC is admissible to the spouse residing with the Government Servant, irrespective of the income of the spouse. The dependency clause does not applicable to the spouse, but only to other members of the family, as per Rule 4 (D) of LTC Rules read with SR 2(8).
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