TYPES OF PENSIONS
a. Service pensions
b. Family Pension
1. Service pensions comprises of:
i. Superannuation Pension
ii. Retiring Pension
iii. Compensation Pension iv Invalid Pension
1.1 SUPERANNUATION PENSION:
Superannuation permission is granted to Government servant entitled or compelled to retire at a particular age. For this purpose an employee in superior service has to retire compulsorily on attaining the age of 58 years and an employee in the last grade service on the date on which he attains the age of 60 years (Rule 33). If he attains the prescribed age on the first day of the calendar month he will retire on the last date of the proceeding month. If it is after the first day, he will retire on the last day of the month.
1.2 COMPENSATION PENSION:
If a Government servant is selected or discharged owing to the abolition of his permanent post, unless he is appointed to another post the conditions of which are equal to that of the post held by him earlier, has an option to retire from service and for taking compensation pension to which he may be entitled for the service he has rendered.
1.3 COMPULSORY RETIREMENT PENSION:
A government servant compulsorily retired from service as a penalty may be granted pension or gratuity or both at a rate not less than two thirds and not more than full invalid pension or gratuity or both admissible to him on the date of his compulsory retirement.
1.4 RETIREMENT ON COMPLETION OF 20 YEARS OF QUALIFYING SERVICE:
Government servant may opt to retire from service voluntarily after he has put in not less than twenty years of qualifying sevice by giving a notice in writing of at least three months to the authority which has power to make a substantive appointment to the post from which he retires. In case of voluntary retirement, the Government servant is entitled to a service weight age of five years or the service whichever is less.
1.4.1 RETIREMENT ON COMPLETION OF 33 YEARS OF QUALIFYING SERVICE
Government servant who has completed thirty-three years of qualifying service may retire from service or may be required by the appointing authority to retire in public interest.
1.5 INVALID PENSION
A Government servant who is declared by the appropriate medical authority to be permanently incapacitated or further service is granted invalid pension (subject to the restriction in Rule 37 of the RP Rules 1980).
1.6 PRO RATA PENSION
Government servant opting for permanent absorption in public enterprises on or after 16-6-1967 is allowed Pro Rata Pension or gratuity with reference to the pension rules by which he is governed by his absorption in the autonomous body. The pension will be calculated on the basis of average emoluments for ten months proceeding the date of his absorption and the retirement gratuity based on the emoluments drawn immediately before absorption.
1.7 COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCE:
Government servant who is dismissed or removed from service shall forfeit his pension and gratuity. The authority competent to dismiss or remove him from service, may if the case is deserving of special consideration, sanction a compassionate allowance not exceeding two thirds of pension or gratuity or both which would have been admissible to him if he had retired on Invalid Pension.
CERTAIN IMPROTANT ASPECTS RELATING TO CALCULATION OF PENSION
2.1 DATE OF BIRTH OF THE EMPLOYEE
Date of birth of the employee should be taken as recorded in the service book based on the Educational records. If the Educational records are not available and where year is only known and the month is not known 1st July has to be taken as the date of birth. If the year and month are known but not the exact date, 16th of the month should be taken as the date of birth.
2.1.2 QUALIFYING SERVICE
The qualifying service of a Government servant commences from the date he takes charge of the post to which he is first appointed either substantively or in an officiating or temporary capacity.
a. In the case of a Government servant in a Class -IV service in a pensionable post prior to 19-11-60, service rendered before attaining the age of sixteen years shall not count, for any purpose.
b. In the case of a Government servant not covered by clause (a) above, service rendered before attaining the age of eighteen years shall not count, except for compensation gratuity.
2.1.3 CONDITIONS SUBJECTS TO WHICH SERVICE QUALITIES
The service of a Government servant shall not qualify unless his duties and pay are regulated by the Government, or under conditions determined by the Government.