Liberalised Family Pension
In case of an officer under the circumstances mentioned in category ‘D’ or ‘E’ eligible members of the family shall be entitled to liberalised family pension equal to Reckonable emoluments last drawn.
Reckonable emoluments includes pay, rank pay, NPA and stagnation increments, if any, last drawn.
With effect from 1.4.2004, DA equal to 50% of the existing basic pay shall be merged with the basic pay which would be counted for retirement benefits.Liberalised Family Pension shall be granted to the widow until death or disqualification. If the officer is not survived by the widow but is survived by child/ children only, all children together shall be eligible for Liberalised Family Pension at the rate equal to Special Family Pension. Liberalised Family Pension shall be payable to child/ children for the period during which they would have been eligible as in the case of Special Family Pension. It shall be paid to the senior most eligible child at a time. On his/her death/ disqualification, it will pass on to the next eligible child.
An example showing calculation of Liberalised Family Pension is given in Illustration No. 7.Liberalised Family Pension on Re-marriage of Widow.
(i) If widow has children (a) If she continues to support children after re-marriage (b) If she does not support children after re-marriage |
Full Special Family Pension continue to widow Ordinary family pension equal to 30 to widow 60% Liberalised Family Pension to eligible children. |
(ii) If widow has no children |
Full Liberalised Family Pension to continue to widow |
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