Chitra Rajesh Brindha Raghavan
Pension is valuable...
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Pension is valuable...
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It was last week in one of my Face book groups comprising
Bank employees there was a mention about
our need to educate our spouse or inform
children etc about the existence of Family pension for those who get Pension
after retirement from Government service… Bank,etc, They had also enclosed copies of formats to be
submitted by the wife or husband to the Banks along with Aadhar/Pan identification
and proof of date of birth from SSLC Book etc.
I got print outs of the formats etc and explained to my wife about the
existence of Family Pension for Bank Pensioners. In short it allows Family
pension to the spouse of the deceased for life time and to children any up to
25 years age. The pension amount may be just a third of what the Pensioner gets…and
as seen Pensioners..Employees are fighting with IBA...or Governments to to
increase Family pensions
It was in this connection I was reminded of my father…He
served in Kerala state or some statutory Board…Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments
Dept Cochin and retired as the Commissioner…the highest post in the Dept. . .Probably
the age of retirement was 55 in Kerala and when he retired many of us his children
were stills studying in schools. We are a large family of 13 children and I was
the eleventh….He had taken care all of us from his salary income and for a
large period from pensions as he had got pension over 30 years after retirement.Of Course
the amount of pension when compared to
same today was less..That is another subject of Economics…fall in value of
money..Inflation…deflation etc. BUT HIS PENSION was a permanent source of income to bring up the children…and
I may state all the children got good education...job etc…More than 20 of his children/grandchildren
are in USA….5 of them are Physicians, 5 of them Chartered Accountants, more
than five of them Engineers..Computer people etc and others a few Bankers, a
few Law graduates..Etc.except cricket players and cinema actors and politicians
all types of people are there..Of course he did not allow our mother to get any
family pension as she passed away earlier. So my point is his Pension was the
sole supporter in bringing up a large family and hence Pension is something
which is valuable in service.
I too get pension after retirement...being credited on last
day of the month..enough for us to survive. And pay the Income Tax thereon..Whenever
I get SMS credit for pension I remember the institution the Bank which gives me
pension after retirement.
I read in some Malayalam news somewhere recently they had
advertised for posts of LDC in Kerala..there were many applicants who were post
graduates some of them in Engineering etc..the reason being they need a
Government job with assured service conditions and Pension, Family pension etc etc.
So pension is a valuable source of income after we retire and
the family too gets it…
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