Dear Comrades,
GRANT OF
FAMILY PENSION TO THE ELIGIBLE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF
PENSIONER - REGARDING.
F. No.
1/17/2011-P&PW (E)
Government of India
Ministry
of Personnel, P.G. & Pension
Department of Pension & Pensioner's Welfare
Lok
Nayak Bhawan, Khan
Market, New Delhi
Dated
14th Sep, 2011
OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
Sub: Grant of family pension to the eligible
members of the family of a pensioner-regarding.
The undersigned is
directed to refer to this Department's earlier office memoranda No.
1/17/86-P&PW(E), dated 29th August , 1986, 25th
January, 1991 and 18th February, 1993 and 1/28/04-P&PW(E) dated
31st March, 2009 and 2nd July,2010 regarding grant of
family pension to the eligible members of the family of an employee/pensioner
reported missing and whose whereabouts are not known.
2. As per this Department's O.M. Dt.
29.8.1986 , subject to fulfillment of certain conditions, the family pension can
be granted to the family of an employee reported missing and whose whereabouts
are not known after a period of one year reckoned from the date of filling the
FIR with the police authorities. Subsequently, it was clarified vide this
Department's O.M. dated 25th January 1991,that the Department of
Pension & Pensioners Welfare's O.M. dated 29th August, 1986,
would be applicable in the case of missing pensioners mutatis mutandis. It was
further clarified vide this Department's O.M. No.1/17/86-P&PW(E) , dated
28.02.1993 that family pension to the eligible family member of an employee
reported missing, would accrue from the
date of lodging the FIR of expiry of leave in the case of and employee who had
disappeared , whichever is later.
3. While providing that the family pension
to the family of the missing employee/pensioner may be sanctioned after a period
of six months from the date of registration of an FIR with the police vide this
Department's O.M. dated 2nd July, 2010, it was also made clear that
the earlier instructions did not make any distinction between the government
servant and the pensioners and cover both of them for the purpose of grant of
family pension. However, doubts have been raised by some quarters to the effect
as to whether family pension will accrue from the date of lodging the FIR in the
case of missing pensioners as well.
4. The matter has been considered in this
Department in consultation with Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.
It is hereby clarified that as the previous instructions did not make any
distinction between the Government servant and the pensioner the family pension
of the family of a missing pensioner would accrue with effect from the date of
lodging the FIR or from the date immediately succeeding the day till pension had
been last paid to the pensioner, whichever is later. Accordingly, arrears in
past cases would also be admissible.
5. This issues with the concurrence of
Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure vide their U.O. No. 263/EV/2011,
dated 12.09.2011.