Pension record: New norms to take away names of deceased

By Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Finance Department has revised its earlier pointers to make sure that the names of deceased beneficiaries are excluded from the social safety pension scheme in time. This follows experiences on relations of the lifeless receiving the pension illegally.

Last yr, the division had fastened the duty of eradicating the names of the lifeless with the native self-government secretaries. It had additionally warned the secretaries that they might be accountable for the monetary loss to the federal government because of the non-removal of the names.

But the panchayat secretaries objected to the route citing that the secretary of an LSG needn’t get data on the loss of life of an individual if the loss of life is registered at one other LSG. Now, the finance division has requested panchayat secretaries to share data on the loss of life of a non-resident individual with the individual’s unique LSG.

The finance division has additionally sought the help of cooperative banks which conduct residence supply of pension. They have been requested to report deaths to native self-governments.