NOMINATION FOR ARREARS

Jeevan Pramaan Patra: A life certificate is a document that serves as evidence that the individual was alive at the time of its issuance. Pensioners are required to present a life certificate to their pension disbursing agency annually in order to r...

The finance ministry will start pre-Budget meetings from October 10 to finalize budgetary allocations for 2025-26 and revised estimates for the current fiscal year. The meetings, chaired by the Secretary (Expenditure), will review six ministries and...

In the cover story this week, we explore why EPF claim rejections or delays are rising and what potential obstacles await those requesting PF transfers or withdrawals. We also suggest the steps you can take to avert a prolonged battle with the EPFO ...

The finance ministry will start preparing the annual budget for 2025-26 from the second week of October 2024. The focus will be on reforms to boost growth, job creation, and demand. This will be Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's eighth budget pr...

Pension for central government employees: The Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare introduced a new Single Pension Application Form, 'Form 6-A,' in a notification dated July 16, 2024. The form is to be submitted by retiring central governme...

This announcement was via an office memorandum dated December 6, 2023 by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

Portfolio review and rebalance is something we routinely talk about, but for most investors it is not an easy concept to grasp and implement. A portfolio does well if it holds funds that are doing well over a long period of time, but there is danger...

The Ministry of Finance has started the process of preparing the interim Budget for 2024-25 by inviting inputs on expenditure from various ministries and departments. The full Budget for the next fiscal year will be presented after the formation of ...

Pensioners body EPS-95 National Agitation Committee on Wednesday said its members across the country and in the national capital will go on hunger strike on Thursday to press for their demand of Rs 7,500 minimum monthly pension. Presently, the pensi...

Since April 1, state governments have raised ?1.4 lakh crore through the sale of bonds as against ?84,240 crore in the same period in the previous financial year, the RBI data showed. On a gross basis, sales of state government bonds were anyway set...

The allocation for the defence ministry has been pegged at ?5.93 lakh crore, up from ?5.25 lakh crore in the 2022-23 budget. The capital outlay has also been hiked to ?1.62 lakh crore, a ?10,000 crore hike from last time. The 12.95% hike in the tota...

There will be different sections in your statement. According to the NSDL website, below are some specifics about your NPS statement for non-govt sector that you should be aware of.

The government has not changed the interest rates on small savings schemes like the PPF. PPF interest income is totally tax-free.

CBI has booked Samandar Singh Rana, the then officiating Custodian of Enemy Property of India (CEPI) at Delhi; Utpal Chakraborty, Assistant Custodian and Ramesh Chandra Tewari, a retired supervisor (both based in Lucknow) under Indian Penal Code sec...

The Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare has observed that the pensions of deceased pensioners are rarely amended based on Pay Commission recommendations, and that arrears of pension in respect of deceased pensioners are not paid to the nomin...

Every retiring employee must submit a nomination in triplicate on Form "A" to the department from which he or she is retiring. If a pensioner's arrears of pension accumulate after his or her death, the arrears are paid to the person to whom a nomina...

Speaking to the media, the SP supremo said all these promises would be part of the party's election manifesto for the UP assembly elections.

Indian government had announced a scheme in January 2021 to incentivise exports and thus reduce the surplus sugar in the domestic market. The scheme was meant to help the sugarcane growing farmers as it assumed that the sugar mills will pay their bi...

The Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare proposes to dispense with the requirement of a number of nomination forms for various benefits like GPF, arrear of pension and commutation of pension by the employees.