Excess pension payments made to Railway pensioners
Railway Board RBA No. 67/2020, dated 24 Aug 2020, Ministry of Railways.
• Implementation of 7th CPC pension revision: Clarification on the points raised by banks.
• Simplification of pension procedure – submission of undertaking by retiring Government servant along with pension papers.
• PCDA Circular 633: Simplification of pension payment procedure.
It has been brought to the notice of Minister for Railways by one of the Zonal Railway that some frauds have been detected in the pension cases of over 80 year old pensioners, especially age related additional quantum of Pension.
Board (Finance Commissner/Railways) has desired that intensive check of all pension payments shall be carried out for the ensuing three months viz. September, October and November, 2020.
Board has issued order to Zonal Railways and said that arrange to have these checks carried out thoroughly.
Suggestive check-list is attached for ready reference by the Board.
The reports of these checks may be sent to Board by 1% of every month by mail at pb.aravind1976@gov.in in the following format:
- No. of pension cases verified.
- No. of cases detected out of (1)
- Amount of excess pension payment detected.
- Nature of discrepancy.
- Details of the Bank making such excess payments.
