Central Pension Accounting Office,
New Delhi (CPAO) is the central agency responsible for Central Government
Employees Pension.
After implementation of Sixth Pay Commission
report, revision of Pension and consequently Revised Pension Payment Order
(PPO) is needed in the following cases.
- In respect of Pensioners and
family Pensioners who are entitled for enhanced pension based on age
- In respect of all Pre-2006
Pensioners (Pensioners and family pensioners for whom pension was fixed
prior to 2006) revision of pension has been ordered in 6cpc if the pension
fixed as per the sixth pay commission report is lesser than the minimum
pension guaranteed based on Pre-Revised Pay Scale of retired / deceased
employees.
For more details Read the following
article published in GConnect, on the topic “Revision of Pension based on
pre-revised Pay scale of retired / deceased employee”
CPAO is taking many steps to gather
the details such as age of pensioners and family pensioners and last drawn pay
of the pensioners / deceased pensioners to revise the pension of pre-2006
Pensioners as well as pensioners who are entitled for enhanced pension based on
age.
Now, CPAO has called for Present
address, telephone number if any and mobile number if any of all the pensioners
and family pensioners. These details are to be provided by Pensioners and
family pensioners while they are submitting Life Certificate for this year in
the month of November.
The Pensioners and family Pensioners
who have not received revised pension payment authority so far may provide the
following additional details at the time of submitting the life certificate in
November 2012
a. Ministry/ Department from where
pensioner had retired
b. Last pay drawn and pay scale
c. Details of spouse
i. Name of spouse
ii. Relationship
iii. Date of birth of spouse AND
iv. Attested photocopy of any one of
the following documents in support of date of birth
a) PAN card
b) Matriculation Certificate
c) Passport
d) CGI-15 card
e) Driving license
f) Voter’s ID card (only if
pensioner/ family pensioner certifies that he/she is not a matriculate and does
not have any of the documents mentioned from (a) to (e) above
The full text of Notification issued
by CPAO is given below:
Government
of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
Central Pension Accounting Office
Trikoot-II, Bhikhaji Cama Place
New Delhi.
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
Central Pension Accounting Office
Trikoot-II, Bhikhaji Cama Place
New Delhi.
Notification No.
CPAO/Tech/LF1/2012 dated 24-10-2012
Attention- Central Civil Pensioners and Pension Disbursing
Banks
(This Notification does
NOT concern Railway/ Defence/ P&T Pensioners)
1.
Life Certificate has to be submitted by the pensioner/ family
pensioner to the Branch Manager of his/her pension paying bank
branch in the month of November every year (except for exemptions provided
under para 152(i) Scheme for Payment of Pensions to Central Government
Civil Pensioners through Authorised Banks)
Pensioners/
family pensioners are advised to henceforth provide the following additional
information for purposes of the Life Certificate form (Annexure XVII
(given below):
Present address:
Telephone number:
(if any)
Mobile
number: (if any)
2. ONLY for the
current year Central Civil pensioners/ family pensioners who have NOT received
a pension revision authority from the Government. may provide the
following additional information at the time of submitting the
life certificate in November 2012:
a. Ministry/ Department from where
pensioner had retired
b. Last pay drawn and pay scale
c. Details of spouse
i. Name of spouse
ii. Relationship
iii. Date of birth of
spouse AND
iv. Attested photocopy of any one of
the following documents in support of date of birth
a) PAN card
b) Matriculation Certificate
c) Passport
d) CGI-15 card
e) Driving license
f) Voter’s ID card (only if
pensioner/ family pensioner certifies that he/she is not a matriculate and does
not have any of the documents mentioned from (a) to (e) above
3. The above
information will help expedite revision of pension subsequent to the recommendations
of the 6 Pay Commission.
4. It
is IMPORTANT for Pensioners/ family pensioners to note that
documentary evidence of age is an important requirement for sanction of the
additional pension for pensioners over 80 years.
5. All banks
may give the above wide publicity and circulate to all branches for compliance
and for advance information of pensioners,
6. Banks may
update their master data based on the life I certificate so submitted
and forward the updated master data through the CPPC to the CPAO. The
additional information submitted may also be scanned and send through CPPC to
CPAO.
ANNEXURE : XVII
LIFE CERTIFICATE
(To
be submitted by Pensioner once a year in November)
Certified that I have seen the
pensioner Shri/Smt,/Ms. ___________________ (Name of Pensioner), holder of
Pension Payment Order No_______________ and that he/she is alive on
this date. His/her present postal address is
________________________________ telephone number (If any)
_____________; mobile number (if any) _____________.
Place:
Date:
Designation of Authorized Officer
Seal.
Chief
Controller (Pensions)
