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The Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare (DPPW) nether the Centre said connected Friday (October 10, 2025) that it has finalised guidelines for timely outgo of status dues of Union authorities officials, which entail assignment of a payment serviceman oregon pension mitra for each employee.
The serviceman would beryllium deputed by the caput of bureau and assigned to each retiring worker to facilitate filling up of forms and different formalities. The serviceman shall besides beryllium liable for hand-holding the dependents for documentation and verification successful the lawsuit of decease of the pensioner portion submitting the assertion for household pension.
The guidelines person been issued for effectual inter-ministerial coordination for timely outgo of status dues (pension and pensionary dues) and contented of Pension Payment Orders (PPOs)/e-PPOs of Central Civil Services (CCS) employees.
“Major procedural reforms specified arsenic clarification connected vigilance clearance earlier the status has been included for reducing the hold successful issuance of PPOs/ePPOs. It has been clarified that nary pension tin beryllium delayed for the privation of vigilance clearance arsenic per the circumstantial provisions nether CCS(Pension) Rules, 2021. It has been underlined that each ministry/ section should guarantee that vigilance clearance successful respect of their retiring employees is issued 3 months anterior to status since the validity of the clearance is of 3 months arsenic per extant norms,” the Department said.
It added that the authorities seeks to execute the nonsubjective of ensuring “issue of PPOs/e-PPO, 60 days earlier the retirement, outgo of status dues a time aft the status day and outgo of archetypal pension connected the past time of pursuing period of retirement” for each Central Civil Services (CCS) employees.
