The inquest on the issue of deduction of old age pension by the Haryana government was held in the assembly. Now, all the elderly persons having an annual income up to Rs 350,000 will not get themselves deprived of the pension. If earning more than this, only then will the pension be reduced. Until now, the government has stopped the pension to those elderly people who earn more than this limit.
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Until now, the blame put on the government was that it is deducted for people with an income of Rs 200,000. The government has denied this allegation. The SG would now extend greater relief to the elderly who do receive a pension in the state. The SG is going to increase more legally the scope of annual income for getting the pension-just about as a state board thing. In the next cabinet meeting, the exact figure to increase the limit will be finalized. At present, it is only the elderly with an annual income that does not exceed Rs 180,000 that get the allowance of pension.
In the assembly, the spokesperson for the Haryana government stated that the concept of linking the pension to the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) program has discouraged the concealment of wealth and now such a session stands right in the way of more open accountability than ever.
So all the information regarding the income of the household above Rs 3.5 lakhs is electronically transferred online to the state by virtue of the family identity card now. It is quite fitting that the state government is sensitive to the plight of these people and opened old windows of late entries into familial information on the identity card to whoever might request that an error might be corrected, pending which the said changes will be certified.
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Pradeep Chaudhary of the Kalka Congress brought up the matter of pension deduction in the assembly. Yadav, a Cabinet minister in the department of Social Welfare and Women’s Empowerment, claimed that only those persons whose annual income did not exceed Rs 3.5 lakh had their pensions stopped. While registering each family with an identity card, the elderly themselves gave the exact amount of income to the government.
Pradeep Chaudhary accused the government of stopping the pensions of the elderly with an income of more than two lakh rupees. While lying about how the documentary evidence proved an amendment in his family members’ Parivar Pehchan Patra, the Minister of State of Social Welfare has also said that the state government welcomes legal action pending in the court. If there is an applicant claiming that this is not his actual income, viz. there is an amendment to some figures, he can present his case with documents.
