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The Defence Ministry has decided to enhance the income criteria for granting family pensions to children and siblings suffering from any disability. At present, a differently abled child or sibling of a dead pensioner is eligible for family pension if the individual’s income from sources other than the family pension is not more than Rs 9,000 along with the dearness allowance component.
“The Ministry of Defence has decided to enhance the income criteria for grant of family pension to children/siblings suffering from mental or physical disability,” said the ministry’s statement.
The Ministry said that such dependents shall be eligible for family pension for life, given that “their overall income from sources other than family pension remains less than the entitled family pension at ordinary rate, i.e 30% of the last pay drawn by the deceased government servant or pensioner concerned plus the dearness relief admissible thereon.”
The ministry said that the financial benefit in such cases shall accrue with effect from February 8, 2021.
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