Public Service Updates: Pension Rules
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PENSION RULES
TERMS USED IN THE PENSION RULES EXPLANATION:
9.1 The various terms used in the pension rules are explained below:
(i) Age. When a Government Servant is required to retirement, or cease to be on
leave, on attaining a specified age, the day on which he attains that age is reckoned as a non-
working day, and the Government servant must retire, revert, or cease to be on leave (as
the case may be) with effect from and including that day (Art. 14 CSRs).
(ii) Family. The 'family' for the purpose of entitlement of gratuity/ pension benefits
under the Pensioncum Gratuity Scheme includes the following relatives of the Government
Servant:
(a) wife or wives, in the case of a male Government servant (unless there is a
judicial separation wife continues to be a member of the Government servant's family
irrespective of the fact whether she has been living with him or not);
(b) husband, in the case of female Government servant (a female Government
servant can exclude her husband from being a member of her family);
(c) children of the Government servant;
(d) widow or widows and children of a deceased son of the Government servant
Pension-cum-Gratuity Scheme 1954)
(iii) Foreign Service. Means, service in which a Government servant receives his
substantive pay with the sanction of Government from any source other than the revenue of the
Government of Pakistan or of a Province or the Railway Fund (Art. 27 C.S.Rs).
(iv) General Revenue. For the purposes of pension include Provincial Revenues.
(Art. 28 C.S.Rs)
(v) Local Fund. The expression 'Local Fund' denotes:
(a) revenue administered by bodies which by law come under the control of the
Government whether in regard to the proceedings generally or to specific matters such as the
sanctioning of their budgets, sanction to the creation or filling up of particular appointments, the
enactment of leave, pension or similar rules;
(b) the revenues of any body which may be specially notified by the Government
as such. (Art. 33 C.S.Rs)
(vi) No Demand Certificate. Means a certificate by the Department concerned that
all the dues against the retiring Government servant up to the date of retirement have been
realized and nothing is now outstanding against him. Such a certificate is also required to be
obtained from the Estate Office concerned.
(vii) Pension. a periodical payment made by Government in consideration of past
services rendered by a Government servant.Except when the term "Pension" is used in
contradistinction to Gratuity "Pension" includes Gratuity. (Art. 41 C.S.Rs)
(viii) Rule of Proportions. Pension is chargeable according to the "Rule of
Proportions" when the charge is debitable to several accounts in the proportions in which, the
aggregate pay drawn by the Government servant during the whole of his qualifying service has
been paid from them. (Art. 45 C.S.Rs)
CLASSIFICATION OF PENSION:
9.2 Compensation Pension.(a) If a Government servant is selected for discharge owing to
the abolition of a permanent post, he shall, unless he is appointed to another post, the conditions
of which are deemed by authority competent to discharge him to be at least equal to those of his
own, have the option:
(i) of taking any compensation pension or gratuity to which he may be entitled for
the service he has already rendered, or
(ii) of accepting another appointment or transfer to another establishment even on
a lower pay, if offered, and continuing to count his previous service for pension.
Note. Government servant cannot refuse offer of alternate employment.
(b) A Government servant not employed in a substantive permanent capacity is
granted Compensation Gratuity/Pension if he is discharged aftercompleting qualifying service of
10/25 years or more owing to the abolition of his post or is replaced by a "qualified" candidate.
[Finance Division O.M No OB-2/12/63-Imp (I) dated 18-8-1966].
9.3 Invalid Pension. (a) An invalid pension is awarded, on his retirement from the public
service, to a Government servant who by bodily or mental infirmity is permanently incapacitated
for the public service, or for the particular branch of it to which he belongs. The infirmity has,
however, to be certified by a duly constituted Medical Board.
(b) If a temporary Government servant is retired for inefficiency due to mental or
physical infirmity he shall be allowed pensionary benefits as if he was required to retire in terms
of Rule 10-A, of the Fundamental Rules.
(c) In case an officer dies before his retirement, his pension is calculated, as if he was
retired on Invalid Pension on the date following the date of his death. (Pension-cum Gratuity
Scheme, 1954)
9.4 Superannuation Pension. A superannuation pension is granted to a Government
servant who is entitled or compelled, by rule, to retire at a particular age. (Art. 458 C.S.Rs)
In terms of Civil Servants (Amendment) Act, 1976 a civil servant is required to retire on
completion of 60 years of age.
9.5 Retiring Pension.(i) A retiring pension is granted to a Government servant who is
permitted to retire after completing qualifying service of 25 years.Such a pension is also granted
to Government servant who is required by Government to retire after completing twenty five
years qualifying service or more.
(ii) Subject to provisions of Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1952, a
Government servant other than a Government servant against whom a departmental proceeding
is pending has the right to retire from service after completion of 25 years qualifying service.
Such a Government servant shall, at least three months before the date on which he intends to
retire, be required to submit a written intimation to the authority competent to fill the
appointment by him at the time of submitting that intimation indicating the date on which he
intends to retire. Such intimation, once submitted shall be final and shall not be allowed to be
modified or withdrawn. However, before formal acceptance of the request he may, if so, desired,
withdraw his application for premature retirement.
(iii) Government has the right to retire any Government servant after he has
completed 25 years qualifying service.
[Finance Division O. M. No. OB-2/l2/63-Imp (l) dated 18-8-I966].
(iv) The term retirement used in Section 19(1) of the Civil Servants Act, 1973
includes "Compulsory Retirement" under the Government servants (Efficiency & Discipline)
Rules, 1973.
(v) In case of voluntary retirement of Government servants the Heads of Departments
are responsible for ensuring verification of qualifying service by the Audit within one month
from the date of receipt of application for voluntary retirement after 25 years qualifying service.
If the qualifying service comes out to be less than 25 years, the Government servant will have to
continue in service till he completes that length of service. The fact of the shortfall in the
qualifying service should be pointed out by the Head of the Department to the Government
servant concerned before the expiry of the three months notice period.
[Finance Division O.M No F 8(5)-Reg.(6)/73 dated 4-1-1975 read with Auditor General letter No. 32-A/69-66,
dated 6-2-1975.]
(vi) The requests for voluntary retirement on completion of 25 years qualifying service should be
submitted to the competent authorities mentioned below:--
Category of Officers Authority competent to accept request for retirement
B-21 and above. Prime Minister.The summary after the approval by the Minister
concerned is to be submitted through the Establishment Division.
B-17to20. Secretary of the Ministry/Division, which administratively
controls the cadre or department to which the post belongs.
Form 'B"
When the Government servant has a family and wishes to nominate more than one
member thereof
I hereby nominate the persons mentioned below, who are members of my family, and
confer on them the right to receive, to the extent specified below, any gratuity that may be
sanctioned by the Government in theevent of my death while in service and the right to receive
on my death, to the extent specified below, any gratuity which having become admissible to me
on retirement may remain unpaid at my death:
Name(s) Relationship with Ag [4]Amoun Contingencie Name, address,
and Government servan e t of share s on the relationship of
address(es t of happening of person if any,
) gratuity which the to whom the
payable nomination right conferred
of
to each shall become on the nominee
nominee(s)
invalid. shall pass in
the event of the
nominee
redeceasing
theGovernmen
t servant
N.B--The Government servant should draw lines across the blank space below the last entry to
prevent the insertion of any name after he has signed.
Dated this..............................................day of.........................................................................19
at………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Witnesses to signature
1…………………………................
2…………………………………… Signature of Government servant
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(To be filled in by the Head of office in the case of B-l to B-15 Government servants)
9.28 Ministries/Divisions etc., should ensure that while approaching the medical authorities
for constituting medical boards, relevant papers etc., are sent to them complete in all respects,
well in advance of the next date of birth of the Government servant concerned.
9.29 The commuted amount of pension equal to 1/4th of the gross amount of pension shall
be restored on completion of the number of years for which commuted value was paid. In
restoring the commuted portion of pension fraction of a year shown in the commutation table
which is less than six months will be ignored and that of six months and more will count as one
year.
[Ministry of Finance O.M No F.10 (8) Reg. (6)/85, dated 25-6-1985]
9.30 No further commutation will be permissible on the commuted portion of the pension
restored.
[Ministry of Finance U.O No 10(8) Reg. (6)/85 dated 2nd October, 1985.]
ANTICIPATORY PENSION:
9.31 (a) When a government servant is likely to retire before his pension can be finally
assessed and settled action should be taken for grant of anticipatory pension. For this purpose the
sanctioning authority should furnish tothe Audit Officer concerned with all the particulars of
services in respect of the retiring Government servant. The Audit Officer should sanction the
disbursement of pension to which after the most careful summary investigation that he can make
without delay, he believes the Government servant to be entitled. Such disbursement should be
made only after the following declaration has been signed by the retiring Government servants:-
"Whereas the (here state the designation of the officer sanctioning the advance) has
consented provisionally, to advance to me a pension of Rs.................................per month and
lumpsum gratuity of Rs.................................. in anticipation of the completion of the enquiries
necessary to enable the Government to fix the amount of my pension and gratuity, I hereby
acknowledge that, in accepting this advance, I fully understand that my pension and gratuity are
subject to revision or the completion of the necessary formal enquiries, and I promise to base no
objection to such revision on the ground that the provisional pension and gratuity now to be paid
to me exceeds the pension and gratuity to which I may be eventually found entitled. I further
promise to repay any amount advanced to me in excess of the pension and gratuity to which I
may be eventually found entitled.”(Art 922 C.S.Rs)
(b) If the Audit Officer considers it likely that the Government servant would be
entitled to a gratuity only, one-sixth of the amount of such probable gratuity should, upon a
similar declaration, be disbursed monthly until the amount is finally settled.(Art. 923 C.S.Rs)
(c) The payment of the anticipatory pension should be so arranged that it is not
delayed beyond the first day of the month following the month in which Government servant is
due to retire. (Art 924 C.S.Rs)
(d) Administrative as well as audit and account authorities must exercise the power
to sanction anticipatory pension, whenever required, to avoid any delay in the payment of
pension.
[Para l(c) of the Finance Division O.M No F. 6(4)-Reg. (6)/79 dated 22-3-1981]
9.32 If for any reason it is apprehended that the pension payment order cannot be issued
within the prescribed time in the case of normal retirement, one month before retirement and in
the case of premature, voluntary or compulsory retirement or death, within three months of the
date of event a provisional order authorising payment of 80% of the admissible pension may be
issued by the competent authority without referring the case to the audit office within one month
of the expiry of the prescribed time.
[Finance Division O. M. No. F. 5(1) Reg. (6)/77 dated 24-2-19/7]
WOUNDS, INJURIES AND EXTRAORDINARY PENSION:
9.33 Where a Government servant is injured, killed or dies of injuries received during the
execution of public duty, a pension or gratuity may be granted to him or to his family in
accordance with the following rules.
9.34 Pension/Gratuity for injury or death in course or consequence of duty. The
classification of disabilities and the criteria for determining their attributability to service under
the Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension), Rules is detailed in Annexre, along with the
rate and scale of disability/death pension and gratuity.
ANNEXURE
Action
Due date Initiated on Completed
on
5. Initiate preparation of one year before expected
pensionpapers. date of retirement
6. Checking of records to
sec whether any recoveries
of Government dues are
outstanding.
9.59 This Progress Sheet should move with the pension papers of the individual concerned
and be returned to the administrative authority after Pension Payment Order has been issued
where observations of Head of Department/D.S./J.S. should be recorded.
STEPS RELATING TO PREPARATION AND DISPOSAL OF AN ORDINARY
PENSION CASE:
9.60 One year before the dale of retirement.
STAGE I
(i) The office responsible for initiating the case starts filling up of working copy of
the Pension Application Form.
(ii) Checks records to sec whether any recoveries of Government dues are
outstanding.
(iii) Attach a Progress Sheet showing the dates by which specific action is required.
Six months before the dale of retirement
STAGE II
(i) Obtain formal application from the would-be pensioner.
(ii) Requests the parties concerned for issue of "No Demand Certificate".
(iii) Warns the Estate Office to bring the rent account up-to-date.
Six to three months before the dale of retirement
STAGE III
(i) Completes the pension papers for submission to sanctioning authority.
(ii) Sanctioning authority records orders.
(iii) Forwarding of papers to the Audit office.
Three months to fortnight before the date of retirement
STAGE IV
(i) Audit Office checks the pension papers.
(ii) Audit Office issues the P. P. O.
(iii) Allows anticipatory pension in case delay is likely to take place in finalization.
After the issue of P. P. O
STAGE V
(i) Audit Office returns the Progress Sheet
(ii) DS/JS examines the Progress Sheet.
The Vigilance officers will keep a close watch over the pension work in the Ministries as well as
the Attached Departments and Subordinate Offices.
PAYMENT OF PENSION IN PAKISTAN:
9.61 (i) Beginning of payment of pension.The ordinary pension is payable from the date
on which the pensioner ceases to be borne on the establishment.(Art. 930 C.S.Rs)
(ii) Payment of Gratuity.A gratuity is paid in single sum, and not by installments, on
receipt of the Accountant General's authority. (Art. 940 C.S.Rs)
(iii) Payment of Pensions.A pension is payable monthly on and after the first day of
the following month. (Art. 943 C.S.Rs)
(iv) Death of a Pensioner A pension is payable for the day on which the pensioner
dies, the hour at which death takes place has no effect on the claim.(Art. 943 C.S.Rs)
[Finance Division Notification No SRO 413(1)/79 dated 19-5-1979 F.6(7)-Reg.(6)/78.]
(v) On receipt of the Pension Payment Order, the disbursing officer should deliver
one-half to the pensioner, and keep the other half carefully in such a manner that the pensioner,
cannot have access thereto. All payments should be entered on both the halves and attested by
the disbursing officer. (Art 943 C.S.Rs)
A pensioner can draw his pension from a District Accounts Officer, Treasury/Sub-
Treasury or any branch of the National Bank of Pakistan.
[Treasury Rule 323 & Finance Division O.M No F. 3(11) IF-IX/75-288 dated 8-4-1977]
(vi) Payment of pensions by Money Orders. Small pensions upto Rs. 500 per
mensum can be drawn-by pensioners at their option and expense through postal Money Orders,
pensioners drawing up to Rs. 30 per mensum are allowed to draw their pensions at Government
expense through postal money orders.
[Finance Division O.M No 4(3)-RI/64, dated 11-2-1965 and F. 4(8) RS/11/68, dated 10-5-1969]
(vii) Personal appearance of pensioners and payment through life certificate. As
a rule, a pensioner must take payment in person after identification by comparison with the
Pension Payment Order. A pensioner specially exempted by the Government from personal
appearance, or a female pensioner not accustomed to appear in public, or a male pensioner who
is unable to appear in public in consequence of bodily illness or infirmity, may receive his or her
pension upon the production of a LIFE CERTIFICATE signed by a responsible officer of
Government or by some other well-known and trust worthy person. A pensioner of any
description, who produces a life certificate signed by some person exercising the powers of a
Magistrate under the Criminal Procedure Code, or by any Registrar or Sub-Registrar under the
Registration Act, or, by any pensioned officer who before retirement held a B-16 and above
appointment or exercised the powers of a Magistrate or by a Munsiff, or by any person holding a
Government title, is also exempted from personal appearance. In all such cases the disbursing
officer must take precaution to prevent impositions and must, at least once a year, require proof
independent of that, furnished by the life certificate, of the continued existence of the pensioner.
(Art. 944, 945, 946 and 947 C.S. Rs)
(viii) Drawal of pensions through Agents. A pensioner of any description, resident
in Pakistan is exempted from personal appearance if he draws his pension through a duly
authorised agent approved by Government who must execute a bond to refund overpayments and
produce at least once a year a life certificate signed by any of the persons authorised in para (vii)
above. Such pensions should not be paid on account of period of more than a year after the date
of life certificate last received and the Accountant-General and the disbursing officer should be
on the watch for authentic information of the deceased of any such pensioner and on receipt
thereof should promptly stop further payment. (Art.949 C. S. Rs)
(ix) Drawal of pensions by pensioners not residing in Pakistan. A pensioner not
residing in Pakistan may draw his pension at any Treasury in Pakistan, any branch of the
National Bank of Pakistan through a duly authorised agent who must either produce a certificate
by a Magistrate, a Notary Public or a Banker or the Head of a Pakistan Mission abroad or a
gazetted officer duly authorised by him on each occasion, that the pensioner was alive on the
date to which his pension is claimed, or execute a bond to refund overpayments and produce
such certificate at least once a year.[Art. 949 C.S.Rs read with Ministry of Finance O.M No. F.
3(9) IF. IX/77-66, dated 13-8-1977]
(x) Certificate of non-employment. A pensioner is required to append to his bill a
certificate as follows:-
"I declare that I have not received any remuneration for serving in any capacity, either
under Government or under a Local Fund during the period for which the amount of pension
claimed in this bill is due".
Note:- In the case of a pensioner permitted to draw pension after re-employment, this
certificate should be modified according to facts (Art. 953 C.S.Rs)
(xi) Arrears of pension. There is now no restriction for the drawal of pension, if it
falls into arrears. The arrears may be paid by the disbursing officer without any reference to the
audit office or the pension sanctioning authority.
[Finance Division O M No F. 5(I)-Reg. (6)/77. dated 21-2-1977].
(xii) Arrears payable to heirs of pensioners.On the death of pensioner payment of
any arrears actually due may be made to his heirs provided that they apply within one year of his
death. It cannot be paid thereafter without the sanction of the authority by whom pension was
sanctioned, to be obtained through the Accountant-General.If, however, the arrears do not exceed
Rs.100/- and the case presents no peculiar feature, the Accountant-General is empowered to pass
the arrears on his own authority.(Art.961, C.S.Rs)
(xiii) If a Government servant not governed by the pension-cum-Gratuity Scheme,
1954, dies before actually retiring or being discharged, his heirs have no claim to anything in
respect of his pension.
(xiv) Future good conduct as condition of payment. Future good conduct is an
implied condition of every grant of pension. The Government reserves to themselves the right of
withholding or withdrawing a pension or any part of it, if the pensioner be convicted of serious
crime or be guilty of grave misconduct. The decision of the President on any question of
withholding or withdrawing the whole or any part of a pension shall be final and conclusive.
(Art.351 C.S.Rs)
(xv) Taking part in elections and politics. Except with the previous sanction of the
Federal Government, no pensioner shall, within a period of two years from the date of his
retirement, take part in any election or engage in political activity of any kind. The contravention
of this provision shall be deemed to be a grave misconduct. (Art 351 C.S.Rs)
ANNEXURE
(SEE PARA 9.34)
PART I
CLASSIFICATION OF DISABILITY
CLASS 'A':
1. Loss of a hand and a foot or loss of use of two or more limbs.
2. Total loss of eye-sight.
3. Total loss of speech.
4. Total deafness both ears.
5. Paraplegia or hemiplegia.
6. Lunacy.
7. Very severe facial disfigurement.
8. Advanced cases of incurable disease.
9. Wounds, injuries or diseases resulting in a disability due to which a person
becomes incapacitated.
10. Emasculation.
Note. Wounds, injuries or disease of limb resulting in damage of nerves, joints, or
muscles making the whole of limb useless would mean loss of that limb. Cases in which a partial
function is retained will not be included in this class.However if the partial retention of function
does. not help in walking in case of leg or does not help in holding an object even with partial
efficiency, it should be considered as total loss of function. Those cases will also be included in
this class where the earning capacity of the civil servant has been totally impaired due to the
invaliding disability.
CLASS 'B':
1. Loss of thumb or at least three fingers of hand.
2. Partial loss of one or both feet at or beyond tarsometatarsal joint.
3. Loss of vision of one eye.
4. Loss of all toes of one or both feet.
CLASS 'C:
1. Limited restriction of movement of joint due to injuries.
2. Disease of a limb restricting performance of duties.
GENERAL NOTE:
When the wound, injury or illness causing the disability is not included in the above
schedule, the disability will be assessed by the Medical Board at the classification most closely
corresponding to those given above.
PART II
20 comments:
1.
2.
whether government servant promote to one step above during period of leave encashment ?
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3.
I am sorry to say that the Finance Division Pension Rules are reproduction of orders most of which since stand
superseded and many orders and definitions currently in practice are missing. The language is poor and at
places grammatical mistakes. These do not meet the present day requirement of pension branch in AGs offices
or the individual pensioners governed under the latest and revised orders. . I don't see any purpose in repeating
pension orders in archive.
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6.
i retired from govt. service in may 2015. While i was in service, the department did not gave me the seniority and
my junior was promoted instead of me. can i claim my seniority after retirement for financial benefits, under the
rules.
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7.
The Changes in Pension Rules have not been updated accordingly like the Deceased Person's Divorced
Daughter etc.
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8.
AoA! Friends, I need help if anyone can give me a favour. My Uncle who retired from Sind Province and from
Last 13 years for some reasons he never went to Sind to draw his pension and now he want to get his pension
after a gap of almost 13 year. Can someone help me how he can claim his pension. My FB id is
03215007549.
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9.
AOA I am Abdul Mateen my Govt. Job will be completed on 27/10/2016 as 25 years qualifying service. I want to
go on retirement. Can i submit my application before October 2016 or after October 2016.
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10.
i want to know about the pension option that if one doesn't want the lump sum amount of pension and want to
keep taking his running salary. explain this option of taking the running pay instead of taking the pension
amount.thanks
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Munawar KhanJanuary 10, 2017 at 2:51 PM
u r allowed
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11.
i want to know about the pension option that if one doesn't want the lump sum amount of pension and want to
keep taking his running salary. explain this option of taking the running pay instead of taking the pension
amount.thanks
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12.
i want to know about the pension option that if one doesn't want the lump sum amount of pension and want to
keep taking his running salary. explain this option of taking the running pay instead of taking the pension
amount.thanks
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13.
i want to retire after 30years of service can i get full pension without 35% cumutation
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17.
i RETIRED FROM SERVICE ON MEDICAL GROUND CATEGORY "A" WHO MUCH SETTLED MY PENSION
OF BENEVOL FUND AND LUM SUM
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18.
i RETIRED FROM SERVICE ON MEDICAL GROUND CATEGORY "A" WHO MUCH SETTLED MY PENSION
OF BENEVOL FUND AND LUM SUM "30 YEAR SERVICE BPS 11
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19.
i want know that is there any rule or court authority indue course of it a civil servant can claim his/her previous
service period he/she served as an Public servant in an autonomous institution but before joining his/her present
he/she was resigned only for the purpose of retirement.
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