A very wonderful and relief news has come out for lakhs of pensioners of Himachal Pradesh. The state government has issued official orders to release the new installment for the outstanding payment of pension and family pension of the retired employees between January 1, 2016 and January 31, 2022. After this office memorandum issued by the Finance Department on Monday, there is a wave of happiness on the faces of retired employees. Let us know how much benefit which category of employees is going to get from this.
Big announcement for third and first-second class employees
According to the new order of the government, the third class (Class-3) employees who retired within the stipulated period will be given full 30 percent of the remaining amount of their outstanding arrears. Apart from this, Class I and II employees will be paid 15 percent of their remaining dues.
The most important thing is that this outstanding amount will not be released after a long wait, but directly into the accounts along with the pension or family pension of this month i.e. September 2026. This latest order is a continuation of all the old orders issued by the government in the last few years and months, under which the dues of the employees are being settled continuously.
Rules for determining category and procedure for adjustment
The government has made it very clear that the provisions of previous orders and corrigendums will be fully applicable to determine the correct category of employees. On the basis of this fixed category, everyone will be paid 30 percent or 15 percent of the arrear amount.
Along with this, the government has also clarified that the amount of the four installments of interim relief on basic pension and basic family pension that have already been given will be adjusted from the total outstanding arrears. These old installments were given under various orders of the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. Apart from this, the amount of 12 installments of Dearness Relief (DA) approved earlier will also be deducted from the gross pension arrears. The net amount remaining after all these necessary adjustments will ultimately be sent to the accounts of pensioners and family pensioners.
Strict instructions to banks and payment authorities
The state government has given very strict instructions to all concerned pension payment authorities and public sector banks. It has been said in the order that if any additional amount has already been paid to any pensioner or family pensioner and its recovery is made, then the same should also be deducted from the outstanding arrears. The final amount remaining after all the deductions and adjustments will be added by the banks to the pension of September 2026 and will be immediately distributed among the pensioners.