Chandigarh. As people are registering the details of their income in the Family Identity Card (PPP), the government is stopping the pension of the elderly, who have made pension by giving wrong information. Under this, a decision of the state government has stopped the social pension of about 15-16 thousand elderly people with annual income up to four lakhs. These people are very angry with this decision of the government and they say that the government is troubling them unnecessarily.
Although according to the rules of the state government, the couple whose annual income is more than Rs 2 lakh, they are not entitled to take old age pension, but the number of such elderly people in the state is in thousands who are taking old age pension.
Pensioners under suspicion
According to the information given by the department, only the employees who have retired from government services are getting affected by this decision of the government. The government has full details of how much pension the retired employee gets every year. Many years ago, the government had decided to give old age pension to the couple who are 60 and above, but at the same time a condition was also laid that the annual income of the couple should not exceed Rs 2 lakh.
But keeping in view the rules of the government, whose husband was giving two lakh rupees annually as pension, his wife is also taking advantage of old age pension or the person whose wife was taking retirement pension, she got old age pension. started taking advantage of. Now the department is doing the work of running scissors on the pension of such people.
Data taken from portal
Annual income has to be entered in the family identity card. Since this entire process is done on the portal of the government. Therefore, the government took the data from the PPP portal and sent it to the Social Welfare Department. In this list, about 16 thousand couples have been found, whose annual income is up to Rs 4 lakh and they are taking advantage of social security pension.
