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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.
(M.M. Kaushik)
Asstt. Controller of Accounts
Source: www.cpao.nic.in
