The Central Government has made a major change in the rules of lump sum ex-gratia payment to the family of central employees after their death in the line of duty. If a Central Government employee dies in the line of duty before retirement, the government gives a lump sum ex-gratia to his family. This amount is revised from time to time.
The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has said in an office memorandum issued on 30 September 2021 that in case of death of a government employee, the amount of death gratuity, GPF balance and CGEGIS will be available only on the basis of the nomination made by him during service. That is, only the people of his family whose names have been filed in the nomination form while the employee was alive, will get this amount.
The government has also made changes in the Common Nomination Form in Form 1 under the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972. On the basis of these, one-time ex-gratia will be paid.
What if there is no nomination?
The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has said that if the employee has not nominated or has not been nominated while alive, then the lump sum amount of ex-gratia will be divided equally among all the eligible members of the employee’s family. This amount will be given under Rule 51 of CCS (Pension).
People outside the family will not be nominated
The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare says that no person can be nominated outside the family of the employee. Even if the employee does not have a family, there will be no nomination of an outsider. According to the rules, since only the family member of the employee gets ex-gratia, the outsider cannot get this amount.
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Why the new rule?
The existing rules did not mention that after the death of the employee in duty, the amount of GPF balance, gratuity and CGEGIS would be given to the family member. Till now this pension was given to an eligible member of the family under the extraordinary family pension. This payment was done under the CCS (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1939. Central Government employees on the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission
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