Step 2.7. Disability Pension
What is a disability pension?
What are the eligibility criteria for accessing benefits from the disability pension scheme?
- The beneficiary cannot avail of this assistance in case he has availed the benefit under rule-47;
- The beneficiary shall obtain an identity card issued by the Department for the empowerment of differently abled and senior citizens;
- A Disability Pension application must be submitted through Seva Sindhu software
- The Board or the Officer authorized after satisfying himself about the eligibility and other criteria shall sanction the disability pension and send to the registered beneficiary, the disability pension sanction order along with the disability pension Identity Card having unique (Electronically generated) DPPO (Disability Pension Payment Order) number.
- The Board or the Officer authorized, shall decide, in case of the beneficiary, who is disabled due to any disease or accident at the worksite, the quantum of ex-gratia based on the percentage of disability declared by the department for the empowerment of differently abled and senior citizens calculated according to the following formula;‑
- Disability Pension shall be paid through the Bank Account of the beneficiary or any other mode of transfer as may be determined by the Board.
- The beneficiary shall submit the ‘Living Certificate’ in Form XIV (A) to the sanctioning authority for each year.
- The Disability Pension granted shall be discontinued once the beneficiary attains the age of sixty years.
How disability pension is calculated?
The department has fixed the formula to calculate the pension amount
- Rs. 2,00,000 (Max. Amt) X Percentage of disability as declared by the department for the empowerment of differently abled and senior citizens = Ex-gratia amount