Letter by NOIP with various demands for LIC Pensioners -Additional Pension for 80+yrs old

It was so good of NOIP to have taken up the pending issues of LIC pensioners with the Secretary of Financial Services.

I would like to refer to one of the items in the list of demands, viz, additional pension to retiree pensioners and family pensioners  at 20%,30%,40%,50% and 100% after completion of 80 yrs,85 yrs,90 yrs,95 yrs & 100 yrs respectively.

Being an octogenarian myself  aged 84 yrs as on date, I would like to stress that the demand for additional pension for 80+ yr old pensioners should be on the upgraded pension effective from the date of wage revision just before the pensioner completed 80,85,90,95 &100 etc, as the Central Government pensioners receive  the additional pension after at least two pension revisions on implementation of recommendations of the ten yearly  Central Pay Commission Recommendations .If pension revision is not combined with additional pension, it will be anomalous resulting in inadequate additional pension being paid.Rule 56 of LIC Pension Rules 1995 already requires  that wherever there is no express provision on any  matter under the pension rules,CCS Pension Rules 1972( now repealed by CCS Pension Rules 2021) will be applied. 

Already, our case for upgradation of pension is before the Supreme Court  and if and when the Apex Court rules that Rule 56 should be implemented,  then 80 + year old pensioners will automatically get the additional pension along with revision in pension.

This should be our approach. 

C H Mahadevan