Wednesday, October 10, 2018

ATTENSION VETERAN BROTHERS- SERIES- 16







PRACTICAL HAPPENINGS  TO NOTE./  CASE STUDIES.


There was no simultaneous Joint notification  while retiring / discharge  prior to 01-3-1985.

The families have to apply for sanction of family pension after the demise of their husbands.

Many widows  not knowing / not guided by others/ authorities  how to claim  family pension.
Hence they  faced lot of hardship  without pension/ getting  sanction.

This hardships  were expressed  and  the Govt. issued  orders/ circulars  to apply for Endorsement of Family pension by Living   pre 1986 pensioners in the year 1988.

Many veterans  followed the instructions and applied   and got  the joint notification / Endorsement.
Unfortunately, still many veterans  have  not applied.  They are in the opinion that the name  in the first page of Pension order book  is the endorsement.  IT IS NOT  THE ENDORSEMENT.   And some are not interested due to various reasons.

Now  we come across many  families not being paid family pension after the death of pensioner.
On going through the documents held by such widows, we noted that there is no Joint Notification hence  the Banks are not paying family pension.

Such cases, we guided and helped them in claiming Family pension  from their Record offices, but it takes not less than 6 months time till that time the families are facing the financial  hardship.

Our Trust have time and again in various functions  and gatherings  explained  in length the importance of the Joint notification  but still some are there. .

FAMILY PENSION:

There are cases where   the families are not sanctioned  with correct Type of family pension.

For example :
If a soldier died while in service,  death is Attributed to service , his wife is eligible for SPECIAL FAMILY PENSION.                If the cause of death is not properly represented , then  she will be sanctioned with  Ordinary Family pension instead of SPECIAL  Family Pension.

Suppose for a genuine case, if ordinary  family pensionwas sanctioned,  they can appeal through  court/  AFT  to get Special Family pension.    The case is to be taken  immediately /within a reasonable time after  sanction,  if it is delayed for very long time, then it will be difficult to  trace out the documents, some time rejected. 
PPO NOT RECEIVED BY PDA / WIDOW
In some cases, the PPO issued by CDA  is not received by Bank  and  the widow  due to any reason

The family will not be paid with family pension. 

We have come across one case:   After the death of a sepoy,  unmarried , his mother was sanctioned with Family pension , PPO issued   in the year 1997.but Bank as well as the widow  did not received .

The widow approached the branches many a times , the branch said that  they have not received the PPO  or any credit from their CPPC.    

The poor widow  inquired from known ESMs , they could not guide her  in the absence of PPO.

She approached  us, we took up the case with Record office  and came to know that  the PPO was already issued and sent to Bank and the widow.   Record Office has sent a Xerox copy of PPO to us.

The Bank is not in a position to disburse pension  due to non availability of PPO.
Now we have written to CPPC  of the PDA  to write to CDA  for getting issued a DUPLICATE PPO WITH A LOSS CERTIFICATE AS PER PROCEDURE.

The widow has approached very late  - case of 1997 reported in 2018.  So much delay.

Now the matter is taken up with  , CPPC of the Bank, DESW, MOD, Record Office and CDA for issuing  a fresh PPO.
Had it been  reported in 1997/ 1998, the widow could have received her pension  long back.

Time barred claim is submitted now. (IAF A-651)

These are the - Practical cases..  Kovilpatti/  sattur.







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