ENDORSEMENT OF FAMILY PENSION FOR PRE-86 PENSIONERS.

ENDORSEMENT OF FAMILY PENSION FOR THE 
PRE-86

ARMED FORCES PENSIONERS.

Present day pensioners are fortunate to have the notification about family pension done in their PPO.  It is only the Pre-86 defence pensioners, who are now reaching the last stage of their life are finding very difficult to get the endorsement of family pension done during their life time.

The parent record offices are putting lot of restrictions on the re-employed ex-servicemen’s cases.  There are cases of widows having PPOs for Two family pensions in their hand,  but unable to get sanctioned even one pension because of some inhumane restrictions on sanctioning Second family pension.

A large number of applications for endorsement of family pension are kept pending with the CDA(P) due to these restrictions.  Even the parent record offices are unable to help the pensioners.  There is no forum to present this problem.  There is no mechanism for redressal.

In case of re-employed ex-servicemen, the situation is worse. The parent record offices are demanding an undertaking from the re-employer that they will not sanction family pension.  Even after surrendering one family pension, the endorsement is delayed.

One well educated Master Warrant Officer of the Indian Air Force is struggling for the past 5 years to get endorsement of family pension.  Now he is seriously ill.  His only worry is that who will help his wife to get the pension after his death.  Unfortunately his wife is also bedridden.  The pre-86 pensioners are the most sufferers in this respect.

The Air Force Record office is managed by an Air Officer.  It is a pity that an MWO is struggling to get the endorsement of family pension.

The re-employed ex-servicemen are allowed to draw two pensions separately.  After their death, when the widows approach the Bank for family pension, they are given only one pension, that too after lot of delay.  The Bank pays only one family pension on obtaining an undertaking that “No family pension” from other source.

There is no justification for denying second family pension.  Since the widows have no proper forum to take up the case the injustice continues.  The re-employed ex-servicemen are also not coming forward under one umbrella to fight for justice.  Lack of unity and understanding among the PBOR are the main cases for such injustice.

The thinking capacity of the ex-servicemen is suppressed by providing liquor through canteens.  The attitude of the bureaucrats will change only when all the 17 lac ex-servicemen and their families refuse liquor and demand better pension and other benefits instead.