Navigating Dual Pensions: Can You Receive Both Government and PSU Benefits?

Can anyone advise regarding opting for two family pensions?

One person is employed in the central government, where he has served for 12 years and is eligible for a pension that has already started from the central government. Subsequently, he was permanently absorbed in a public sector undertaking. After some years, a pension scheme was initiated in that PSU, and he became eligible to receive a pension from that PSU as well.

Can anybody tell me if he can avail both pensions, one from the central government and another from the PSU?

With regards,
RK Sinha
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Yes, he is eligible to receive two pensions. It is perfectly correct. However, what I did not understand is this: If that person worked in the central government for 12 years, then how did he become eligible to draw a pension? The minimum pensionable service is 20 years for central government employees. This rule of pensionable service is waived off only for defense and a few other employees.

Definition of Pension

The definition of the word "pension" is "a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury, or loss sustained," etc.

In the above definition, please concentrate on the phrase "in consideration of past services." For the case at hand, the employee is eligible for a pension from two different government agencies "in consideration of past services."

Ok...

Regards,
DVD

In the past, a regular employee of the Central Government who has completed more than 10 years of service is eligible for a pension. Even a quasi-permanent employee who has completed more than 10 years is entitled to a pension, as per the decision of the Supreme Court.

Regards,
RK Sinha
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In your case, one pension is from a private company, and the other is from government sources. There is no problem at all. She can draw both pensions.

My aunt is a widow, and she receives a pension after the death of her husband (a military man). Is she eligible for the state widow pension scheme? Can she receive two pensions at the same time, one from the state and another regular one?

Thank you.

Dear Sir,

My father was a central government employee. He took VRS and some years later he passed away. After that, my mother started receiving my father's family pension from the central government. She completed her service in the state government, and now she is receiving her own pension from the state government. Is she eligible for both pensions, and can she submit her Aadhar card to both banks? I mean, the family pension bank and her pension bank. Please advise.

Dear Anoop and Sumeet,

In both cases, the pensioner is eligible to receive double the pension. One situation has nothing to do with the other.

Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar

Hello Sir, my mother is receiving a family pension from my father, who passed away during his tenure as a school teacher in high school. On that basis, she inherited my father's job and was appointed as a school teacher in a middle school. Upon joining the school, the family pension was reduced by half as per government regulations. She is now entitled to receive her own pension after retirement.

My question is: Can she receive both pensions simultaneously? If not, is it possible to transfer my father's family pension from my mother's name (as the sole nominee) to her son's name?

Please note that both pensions are from the state government in Jharkhand.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Subhadeep

Husband and wife both are working in government jobs. After the death of the husband, his wife is receiving a pension. Now that the woman has retired from her government job, she is also receiving a pension.

Is it possible that she is receiving two pensions? One pension is from after the death of her husband, and the second is from her retirement.