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Note: A certificate of guardianship issued in respect of person with Autism, Cerebral 2. Income criteria shall be taken into account for both parents when both are alive.
Palsy, Mental retardation and multiple disabilities issued under National Trust
Act by local level Committee is acceptable. DIVISION OF ORDINARY FAMILY PENSION

(d) If the marriage of the disabled daughter is legally annulled, she would be 71. (a) If service personnel leave behind two or more widows who are eligible for an
eligible for family pension for life from the date of her marriage stands annulled, subject to ordinary family pension, the pension shall be divided amongst them in equal share. On the
the following conditions:- death of widow, her share of ordinary family pension shall become payable to her eligible
(i) Divorce is valid in law. child.
(ii) Divorced daughter shall not be required to come back to parent’s Provided that if the widow is not survived by any child, her share of the family
home. pension shall not lapse but shall be payable to the other widows in equal share, or if there
(iii) Disability is certified by an appropriate authority as required under is only one such other widow, in full to her.
this Regulation.
(b)Where a deceased is survived by a widow and has also left behind eligible
(e)The disabled widowed daughter shall be eligible for ordinary family pension for child/children from another wife who is not alive, the eligible child of the deceased wife
life from the date of death of her husband even after attaining the age of 25 years of age shall be entitled to the share of ordinary family pension which the mother would have
subject to all other conditions prescribed in the case of son/daughter. received if she had been alive at the time of death of the service personnel/pensioner.

Explanations: Provided that the share or shares of family pension payable to such a child or
children or to a widow or widows ceasing to be payable, such share or shares shall not
1. For the purpose of grant of ordinary family pension under this Regulation, the
lapse but shall be payable to the other widow or widows and or to other child or children
disability that manifests itself before or after the retirement or death of the service
otherwise eligible, in equal shares, or if there is only one widow or child, in full to such
personnel shall be taken into account. This benefit will also be admissible to the widow or child.
eligible disabled children whether born before or after retirement.
(c) Where the deceased is survived by a widow but has left behind eligible
2. A disable son/daughter shall become ineligible for ordinary family pension child/children from a divorced wife or wives, the eligible child or children shall be entitled
under this Regulation from the date he/she gets married. to the share of family pension which the mother would have received at the time of the

3. Ordinary family pension payable under this Regulation shall be stopped from death of the service personnel had she not been so divorced.
the date of earning more than Rs. 2550/- per month from any source. It shall be the duty
Provided that the share or shares of family pension payable to such a child or
of the guardian or son or daughter to furnish a certificate to the Pension Disbursing
children or to a widow or widows ceasing to be payable, such share or shares shall not
Authority, annually to the effect that:
lapse but shall be payable to the other widow or widows and or to other child or children
(i) he/she has not started earning his livelihood. otherwise eligible, in equal shares, or if there is only one widow or child, in full, to such
(ii) he/she has not yet married. widow or child.
4. The divorced/widowed daughter shall not be require to come back to parental
home to become eligible. Note: Children born out of void marriage in terms of Section 11 of Hindu Marriage
Act, 1955 shall be entitled to share of the ordinary family pension, if otherwise
admissible, though their mother would not have been eligible for the same, had
ORDINARY FAMILY PENSION TO PARENTS she been alive at the time of death of her husband, on account of her marriage
being null and void under the above said Section.
70. Parents who were wholly dependant on the service personnel when he was alive,
provided the deceased had left behind neither a widow nor child may be granted ordinary
GRANT OF ORDINARY FAMILY PENSION IF BOTH WIFE AND HUSBAND
family pension for life at normal rate as admissible under Regulation 64 (a) of these
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
Regulations subject to the condition that their earning is not more that Rs. 2550/- per
month from all sources including pay, pension or self employment. 72. (a) In case where both husband and wife are Government servants and if one of the
two dies while in service or after retirement with a pension, the ordinary family pension in
Note-1. Mother will receive ordinary family pension first and after her death, father will respect of the deceased shall be payable to the widow/widower in addition to his pay or
be re-granted family pension. A mother who becomes widow has not re-married pension, as the case may be.
remains eligible.

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