7th Pay Commission: Central employees will get big benefit, now family members will get Rs 1.25 lakh
7th Pay Commission: These days the Central Government is kind to its employees and pensioners. Like the 7th Pay Commission, the central government has made a big announcement for the first employees and now their families. The central government has announced an increase in the facilities provided to the families of central employees.
Actually, if both the husband and wife are government employees and are covered under the Central Civil Services Pension (CCS Pension) 1972, then their family will also be made part of the family pension. If both the members die after retirement, their children (nominees) can get two pensions. Under this, the maximum pension amount will be Rs 1.25 lakh. However, there will be some conditions with this.
According to Rule 54(11) of CCS Pension 1972, if both husband and wife are covered under the rules of pension, then after their death, their two children will get family pension. According to the rules, if one member dies after retirement in government service, the family pension goes to the other member (husband or wife). On the other hand, if both the members die after retirement, then their children get the facility of family pension.
Under the Pension Rule 54(3), there is a law to get 45000 rupees as family pension to the children on the death of the employee of the first member. If both the family pensions were given to the children, then according to sub rule (2), this amount would have been Rs 27000. According to the rules of the Sixth Pay Commission, two family pensions were available at the rate of 50 percent and 30 percent of the maximum pension amount of 90000 under CCS rules. According to 90000, this amount was 45 thousand and 27 thousand rupees.
But under the 7th Pay Commission, the maximum amount of pension is fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh. According to the new rules of family pension, both husband and wife are government employees and if both of them die after retirement, then a pension of 1.25 lakhs and another family pension of 75 thousand rupees will be given to the nominee children.
In the new rule, the government has fixed family pension at the rate of Rs 2.50 lakh per month. According to the notification, instead of Rs 45 thousand, 50 percent of the total Rs 2.5 lakh i.e. Rs 1.25 lakh will be given to the nominee as family pension. Now the pension of 27 thousand rupees has been reduced to 30 percent of 2.5 lakh i.e. 75 thousand rupees.