Lucknow. The Yogi Adityanath government of the state has decided that the divorced daughter of a government servant / pensioner or his wife / husband will be allowed family pension even when the divorce proceedings were filed in the competent court while her father / mother was alive and Divorced after his death. Provided that such divorced daughter fulfills all other conditions of eligibility for family pension.
In such cases the family pension will start from the date of divorce. The Finance Department has issued a mandate in this regard on Thursday. Till now it was the system that a government servant/pensioner or his divorced daughter dependent on his wife/husband was entitled to family pension only if she was divorced while the father/mother was alive.
The Central Government had in July 2017 provided that a divorced daughter dependent on a retired employee/pensioner would be entitled to family pension even if her divorce proceedings were filed in a competent court while her father/mother was alive and divorced. happened after his death. The state government has decided to implement the central system in such cases.
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