If there is a disciplinary action against a government employee, he/she will get less pay for a specific time. If the employee dies during the said period, it will not have a negative impact on the calculation of family pension and death gratuity.
The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare, through an office memorandum dated December 9, 2021, issued an order changing the rules related to the calculation of family pension and data gratuity.
has done. Under this order, if the death of an employee occurs at a time when he is getting less salary by way of any penalty, then his death gratuity and pension will be calculated on the same salary which he got before the punishment. Was being Earlier, a lot of problems were arising in front of the department regarding such matters.
This coming problems
it has been observed, according to the Memorandum that if an employee’s death occurs at a time when her penalty getting less salary and his death gratuity and pension base is taken as the value of the low salary. If this happens then there will be a lot of injustice to the family of the deceased employee. At the same time, no officer punishes any employee for this purpose, nor does the officer know that he will die in this period.
The decision has now been taken, it has been
informed in the memorandum that now in cases where a Government servant dies during the penalty period, at the end of which he would have received the same salary as he would have received if he had not been fined.
The pension and death gratuity in respect o such Government servant shall be determined on the basis of notional pay to which he would have been entitled on the date of death. This order has been implemented with immediate effect. Also, old cases will not be reopened. However, such cases can be considered, which have not yet been determined regarding pension and death gratuity.
Let’s try to understand with example For
example, hypothetically, suppose the fine is imposed for four months, say from October to January and the salary of a government employee goes from Rs.15 thousand to Rs.10,000. Now if the government employee dies in December, the family pension and death gratuity for the family members of the government employee will be calculated on the basis of Rs 15,000 and not on the basis of Rs 10,000 (penalty pay).
