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Handbook on Family Pension
• Family pension under Rule 54 of the CCS (Pension) Rules is a welfare scheme designed to provide relief to the widowed spouse and children of a deceased employee or pensioner.
• The employee makes no contribution to the family pension and has no control over it.
• Family pension is not the property of the deceased employee, and entitlement cannot be decided by a succession certificate. The rules designate the entitled persons, and no other person may receive it.
• For family pension purposes, the family is categorized as Spouse, Children, Parents, and Disabled Sibling, with their eligibility governed by specific orders.
• Government servants must furnish family details in Form 3 to the Head of Office upon entering service or as soon as they acquire a family.
• Spouse: Family pension is payable to the widow or widower until the date of death or re-marriage, whichever is earlier.
• Family pension can continue for a childless widow even after re-marriage if her income is less than the minimum family pension plus dearness relief.
• Pension is payable to children in the order of their birth; the younger child is ineligible unless the older child next above them becomes ineligible.
• An unmarried son is eligible until he attains the age of 25 years, gets married, or starts earning a livelihood, whichever is earliest.
• If a son or daughter is suffering from a mental disorder/disability or is physically crippled/disabled so as to render them unable to earn a living even after age 25, the family pension is payable for life. This life pension can continue even after their marriage. It is payable for life after the youngest child attains 25 years of age.
• Family pension to a minor disabled son or daughter is paid through their Guardian. A Guardianship Certificate issued by the Local Level Committee under the National Trust Act, 1999, is accepted for mentally disabled children.
• Disabled children or their guardians must produce a certificate every five years confirming the continuance of the disability.
• If both parents were covered by the family pension rules, the children receive two family pensions. The family pension received by a beneficiary in respect of one deceased employee is not counted as income for determining eligibility for another family pension.
• A child adopted by the spouse of the pensioner (after the pensioner's death) is not treated as a member of the deceased pensioner's family.
• Family pension is payable to children in the order of their birth. The next younger child becomes eligible only after the elder child next above them becomes ineligible.
• Where family pension is payable to twins, it is paid to them in equal shares.
• The name of a permanently disabled child or sibling will be added to the Pension Payment Order (PPO) issued to the retiring Government servant, provided there is no other eligible prior claimant for the family pension.
• The appointing authority may accept a disability certificate issued after the death of the employee/pensioner or their spouse, provided the disability existed before their death. Non-intimation of the physical/mental handicap initially does not make a child ineligible for the family pension.
• A spouse who is separated from the Government servant/pensioner under a judicial separation decree from a competent court is eligible for a family pension if the spouse was receiving an allowance from the Government servant/pensioner at the time of their death.
• The spouse must have been receiving an allowance for their maintenance from the deceased, or they must have filed a petition for maintenance in a competent court.
• Parents are eligible for the family pension only if both the following conditions are met:
1. The deceased Government servant or pensioner is not survived by a widow/widower or an eligible child.
2. The parents were wholly dependent on the Government servant or pensioner, and their combined monthly income does not exceed ₹9,000/- (Rupees Nine Thousand only).
• The pension is payable to the parents in the following order:
• First to the mother.
• If the mother is not alive, then to the father.
• The family pension is paid at two rates:
• Enhanced Rate: This rate is equal to 50% of the last pay drawn or 50% of the maximum pay in the scale of pay last held.
o It is payable to the family for a period of ten years.
o This ten-year period is calculated from the date following the death of the Government servant, provided the deceased had completed a minimum of seven years of continuous service.
• After the enhanced rate period ends, the pension is payable at the normal rate, which is 30% of the last pay drawn or 30% of the maximum pay in the scale of pay last held.
• A daughter who is unmarried, widowed, or divorced is eligible for the family pension if she meets the following criteria:
• She is eligible until she attains the age of 25 years or gets married (for unmarried/divorced daughters), whichever is earliest.
• She has not started earning her livelihood.
• She is eligible only when there are no eligible prior claimants (i.e., the widow/widower or an older eligible child).
• A permanently disabled sibling is eligible for a family pension under very specific conditions:
• Order of Claim: The sibling is eligible only if the deceased Government servant/pensioner is not survived by a spouse, eligible child, or eligible parents.
• The sibling must have been wholly dependent on the Government servant/pensioner, and their combined monthly income does not exceed ₹9,000/-.
• The pension is payable to the sister first, and then to the brother.
• Family pension is not admissible in the following cases:
• If a Government servant is dismissed or removed from service.
• If a Government servant resigns from service.
• If a Government servant's service is forfeited under specific rules (like Rule 26 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972).
• Family pension is not payable to a person who is charged with the offense of murdering the Government servant or abetting the commission of such a crime
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