Pensioners body seeks resolution for widow's pension claim pending since 2020

…The BPS says that neither the claimant nor the association that had forwarded Mita’s case have been approached for any clarification or additional document or information by the pension sanctioning authorities. “ Nor has any meaningful communication been made indicating the present status or the specific impediment preventing settlement of the claim, ” BPS secretary general Avinash Rajput writes in the letter. “The repeated practice of merely forwarding the grievance to the same pension sanctioning authority, which in turn reiterates the earlier requirement, has…

…is pending for six years Explaining the case to ET Wealth Online, Mihir Baran Chatterjee, general secretary, Uttarpara Central Govt Pensioners' Association, West Bengal, who has forwarded Mita’s case to the BPS, said- Mita’s father was a Railway employee who died years ago. Mita is a widow, and she applied for dependent family pension in the office of the Principal CPO, South Eastern Railway, in 2020, when her mother, who was getting family pension at that time, died. When Mita approached the PCPO, they asked Mita to submit a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from all her siblings as a requirement to get the dependent family pension. She got the NOC from all her siblings except for her…