The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has introduced a new rule allowing female government employees and pensioners to nominate their children, instead of their husband, for family pension in certain cases.
“…it has been decided that in case divorce proceedings in respect of a female member of service/female pensioner are pending in a court of law, or the female member of service/female pensioner has filed a case against her husband under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act or under Dowry Prohibition Act or under Indian Penal Code, such female member of service/female pensioner may make a request for grant of family pension after her death to her eligible child/children, in precedence to her husband,” according to the order.
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This order has brought relief especially to those women who are in the process of divorce or who have filed a case against their husband under domestic violence, dowry harassment or other legal sections. Now such women will be able to directly make their children entitled to it without making the husband the primary beneficiary of family pension.
According to the DoPT order (No. 25014/01/2024-AIS-II (Pension)), women officers of All India Services (AIS) or pensioners, whose marital status is disputed, can now nominate children on priority basis for family pension.
This provision was already implemented on other government employees through the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare (DoP&PW) on January 1, 2024. Now this facility has also been given to women officers of All India Services.
This decision of the government will provide great relief to those women employees who are going through marital harassment or legal battle. This step is an indication that the government is taking the safety and rights of women and their children seriously and is committed towards supporting them in difficult times.
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