Woman Gets Family Pension Denied To Her For Over 30 Years: Rights Body

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• Jul 25, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital Desk: According to officials, the National Human Rights
Commission saw to it that a lady received the family pension that had been
"denied" to her for more than 30 years since her husband passed away
in 1987. The woman's husband was a former ambulance driver who had worked at
the Safdarjung Hospital in this city, according to a statement from the NHRC.

According to the rights panel, the NHRC "has guaranteed
that a woman got her family pension, which was being denied to her" for
more than 30 years.

Her family pension order was granted on June 22, 2022, according
to information provided to the Commission by the Safdarjung Hospital's Pay and
Accounts Office.

She is now eligible to receive a Rs 9,000 monthly pension.
Additionally, the announcement stated that permission to pay family pension
arrears from December 3, 1987 to March 31, 2022 has been approved.

On the basis of a victim's complaint dated March 11, 2021, the
Commission had filed the lawsuit.

The panel was notified in response to the Commission's notices
to the authorities that the file via which the department issued the memorandum
to the victim was "destroyed".

The rights panel stated that although a Pension Payment Order
had been issued in her husband's favour and the family pension column had been
left blank, indicating that the couple was still unmarried, the family pension
had not been authorised.

The Commission noted that in the event that the record is
lost, the relevant authority is authorised and qualified to create a new file
based on copies of the records that the complainant or applicant has access to,
subject to verification of the facts that she was the legally married wife of
the government worker who had passed away following retirement.

In response, the Commission was told that a team had been
formed with this objective in mind. According to the statement, the team's
confirmation of the victim's position as the lawfully married wife of the dead
paved the door for the payment of arrears and her family pension.