Manner of disposal of PPO – Death of the pensioner with no claimant authorized for family pension in the same PPO
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE
CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE
TRIKOOT-II, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE,
NEW DELHI-110066
CPAO/Tech/Bank Performance/2014-15/511-581,
23.09.2014
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Sub: Manner of disposal of PPO – death of the pensioner with no claimant authorized for family pension in the same PPO
The Central Pension Accounting Office is
a nodal agency for administering the Scheme for pension disbursement
through public sector banks. It is in continuous process of streamlining
and simplifying the pension delivery to the utmost satisfaction of
Pensioner’s/ family pensioner’s comfort and convenience. The
disbursement of family pension to the “family pensioner other than
spouse” like widowed/divorced daughter is one of those areas in which a
lot of efforts have been put in to simply and make them effective and
efficient.
But it has been observed that a number
of court cases and legal cases received in CPAO are mainly related to
delay in the commencement of family pension to the family pensioner
other than a spouse and arisen due to negligence on the part of the
banks in returning the disbursers’ and the pensioners’ half of the PPO
to CPAO if there is no family pensioner stands to be authorized through
the same PPO.
In this context, Para 23.3 of “Scheme
for Payment of Pensions to Central Government Civil Pensioners through
Authorized Banks” provides the manner of disposal of PPOs wherein no
claimant exists after the death of pensioner/family pensioner with the
stipulation that the disburser’s portion as well as pensioner’s portion
of the PPO is to be returned to CPAO for updation of its record and
onward transmission to the PAD/AG who had issued the PPO for similar
action and record.
The non-compliance of these instructions
by the banks is resulting increase in receipt of number of court cases
and legal cases in CPAO, non-updation of CPAO’s and PAO’s relevant
record, delay in authorization of family pension to the eligible family
members for whom a new PPO is to be issued, causing hardship to the
claimants, points raised by the Pensioners’ Welfare Associations from different platforms including SCOVA meetings.
The Para 6.3.1 of the CPPC Guidelines
also stressed upon the strict adherence to the codal provisions of
“Scheme Booklet”, CCS[Pension] Rules, Orders, Guidelines on Pension
issued by Government of India/Reserve Bank of India from time to time.
Non-compliance of codal provisions by the banks is a very serious lapse on their part.
Therefore, it is imperative to instruct the Heads of CPPC of all the
banks/ Heads of Govt. Business Divisions to take a stock of these cases
and send a Review Report within seven days from the receipt of this
Office Memorandum followed by returning of both the halves of all such
PPOs wherein pensioner/spouse has died and no claimant for family
pension has been authorized in the PPO. The matter may be taken
on priority as it is under review at the higher level.
This issues with the approval of Chief Controller [Pensions].
The Hindi version will follow.
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(M.M. Kaushik)
Asstt. Controller of Accounts
Source: www.cpao.nic.in
[http://cpao.nic.in/pdf/cpao_tech_bank_perf_2014-15-511-581.pdf]
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