Member can defer the age of drawing pension after 58 years

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(Last Updated On: May 3, 2016)

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(i)]

MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT NOTIFICATION

New Delhi,

the 25th April, 2016

G.S.R. 440(E).—In exercise of powers conferred by section 6A read with sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (19 of 1952), the Central Government hereby makes the following Scheme further to amend the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995, namely :-

1. (1) This Scheme may be called the Employees’ Pension (Second Amendment) Scheme, 2016.

(2) It shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 in paragraph 12, after sub-paragraph (7A), the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted, namely:-

“(7B) (a) A member who has attained the age of fifty-eight years and is otherwise eligible for pension under clause (a) of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, if he so desires, may be allowed to defer the age of drawing pension later than fifty-eight years but not beyond sixty years of age.

(b) In such cases as is referred to in clause (a),-

(i) the amount of pension shall be increased at the rate of four per cent. for every completed year after the age of fifty-eight years which shall be restricted to the wage ceiling given under the proviso to sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3;

(ii) the member, at his or her option, may also be allowed to continue contributions under paragraph 3 to the Employees’ Pension Fund for the period for which the drawal of pension has been deferred, if the member is continuing in employment after the age of fifty-eight years, and the pensionable service and pensionable salary for the purpose of determination of pension under sub-paragraph (2) will be reckoned taking into account the period for which contributions were made after the age of fifty-eight years but not beyond the age of sixty years;

(iii) in the event of death of the member, who has opted for deferring the age of drawing pension under this sub-paragraph, after attaining the age of fifty-eight years and before the commencement of the pension so deferred, the family of the member will be entitled to pension under clause (c) of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 16 from the date following the date of death of the member as if the member monthly pension had commenced on the date of death of the member.”.

[F. No. R-15011/3/2016-SS-II]

MANISH KUMAR GUPTA, Jt. Secy.

Note : The Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i) vide notification number G.S.R. 748 (E) dated 16th November, 1995 and was lastly amended vide notification number G.S.R.387(E) dated 1st April, 2016.

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