War Injury Pension on Invalidment
Where an officer is invalided out of service on account of disability sustained under circumstances mentioned in category “E” , he shall be entitled to War Iinjury Pension consisting of Service Element and War Injury Element as follows :-
(i) Equal to Retiring Pension to which he would have been entitled on the basis of his pay on the date of invalidment but counting service upto the date on which he would have retired in that rank in normal course including weightage, if admissible.
There shall be no condition of minimum qualifying service for earning this element.
(ii) equal to reckonable emoluments last drawn for 100% disablement. However, in no case aggregate of service element and war injury element should exceed last pay drawn. For lower percentage of disablement, war injury element shall be reduced and will be computed as per clause (iii) in Constant Attendance Allowance topic.
An example showing calculation of war injury pension on invalidment is given in Model Calculation.
War Injury Pension on Retention in Service
An officer who is retained in service despite the disability due to war injury sustained under circumstances mentioned in category ‘E’ and retire subsequently shall have on option as follows.
(a) to draw lump sum compensation in lieu of war injury element foregoing war injury element at the time of subsequent retirement.
(b) to draw war injury element at the time of retirement in addition to retiring pension admissible on retirement, foregoing lump sum compensation.
Lump-Sum Compensation in lieu of War Injury Pension
In case an officer is found to have a disability which is sustained under the circumstances mentioned in category of Disability which is assessed at 20% or more for life but the officer is retained in service despite such disability and opts for lump sum compensation, he shall be paid the lump sum compensation in lieu of war injury element.
The rate for calculation of lump sum compensation in lieu of war injury element for 100% disability for life will be Rs. 5200/- p.m.
For disability due to war injury of less than 100%, the rates shall be proportionately reduced.The one time compensation in lump sum in lieu of war injury element will be equal to the capitalized value of war injury element.
Age next birth day will be reckoned with reference to the date of onset of disability with loading to age, if any, recommended by the Competent Medical Board.Once the compensation in lieu of war injury element due to disability for life has been paid, there shall be no further entitlement on account of such a disability at the time of retirement form Armed Forces. Since this is one time payment of compensation, no restoration will be permitted.
War Injury Element on Subsequent Reitrement
Where an officer is retained in service despite injury/disability sustained under the circumstances mentioned in Category ‘E’ and does not opt for lump sum compensation in lieu of war injury, he shall be entitled to the payment of war injury element on a monthly basis at the rate prescribed in above Para above on subsequent retirement.
For disabilities less than 100 %, the above rate shall be proportionately reduced. No war injury shall be payable for disabilities less than 20 %.
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