GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
ABSTRACT
FINANCE (HR .III.Pension-I)
DEPARTMENT
ABSTRACT
Automation of pension - Payment of
retirement benefits on the day of retirement without the intervention of the
employee – Instructions – Issued.
FINANCE (HR .III.Pension-I)
DEPARTMENT
G.O.MS.No. 100
Dated: 27-06-2018.
Read the following:
- Govt. Memo No.37989-A/494/A2/Pen.I/98, Finance & Planning Department Dated .21.04.1999.
- Govt. Memo No.021383/961/PSC.I/83-1dt.08.06.1983 of Finance & Planning (FW.PSC.I) Department
- Circular Memo No.12437-A/112/PSC/A/88, dt.23.07.1988 of Finance & Planning (FW.PSC) Dept.
- G.O.Ms. No.263, Finance Department, dated: 23.11.1998.
- G.O. Rt. No. 213, Finance (PSC) Department, dated: 19.12.1997.
- G.O.Rt.No.117,G.A.(SC-F) Dept., dt.19.01.2018
- G.O.Ms. No.99,Finance (HR II)Department, dated:27.06.2018
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Order:-
It is the endeavor of the Government to pay pension and pensionary benefits on the date of retirement. Government vide G.O. sixth
read above, constituted a committee with officials from General Administration, Law and Finance Departments and officials from the office of the Accountant
General (A&E), Andhra Pradesh to study the existing rules and procedures
and recommend measures to hasten
the process of payment of pension and pensionary benefits by removing the
lengthy procedures and redundancies in
the existing system. The committee
submitted its report.
2.
Based on the recommendations of the committee, Government hereby order that -
i.
the instructions
issued vide references 1st to 4th read above are hereby
cancelled.
ii.
(a) The Executive instructions IV under Rule 45 of AP Revised Pension
Rules, 1980 shall be substituted with the following:
“Interest on the delayed payment of pensionary benefits at the rate
of 4.5% for the period of delay upto one year and at the rate of 5% for periods
beyond one year by recovering the amount from the salary of the Pension
Sanctioning Authority (PSA) through Director of Treasuries and Accounts / Pay
and Accounts Officer / Director of Works Accounts concerned. In normal cases
the pensionary benefits shall be credited to the employees account on the next
day of retirement. The regular pension shall be credited from the 1st working day of the
next month of retirement onwards”.
Recovery
procedure of interest payable to
the pensioner on late payment:-
Based on claim/complaint from the pensioner to the HoD/ Secretary to Government
of the department concerned, the HoD/ Secretary to Government shall fix responsibility
for the
delay on the Pension Sanctioning Authority and issue orders for recovery of the penal amount from the salary of
the responsible officer and
shall communicate to the Treasury Officer / Pay and
Accounts Officer, Vijayawada, which should be honored by them. The operation of the penal
interest provision shall come into force after 3 months from the date of
issue of the Order.
The drawing officer shall affect the recovery of the amounts from
salary of the responsible and credit to the claimants Account.
(b) The Executive
Instructions II under Rule 52 of AP Revised
Pension Rules 1980 shall be substituted with the following:
“the provisional pension shall be sanctioned by
respective authorities competent to sanction
the normal pension admissible under rules and to forward to the Accountant General for authorization duly furnishing the sanction order from competent
authorities”.
iii.
Annual attestation of Service
(Annexure-II Part-III )of Fundamental Rules :
It shall be the duty of every Head of
the Office to initiate action to show the service books/rolls to Government
servants under his/her administrative control every year and to obtain their
signature therein in token of having inspected the service books/rolls. A
certificate to the effect that he has done so in respect of the preceding
financial year should be submitted by him to his next superior officer by the
end of every September. All Heads of Offices should issue notices to all the
government employees under their control to get personally their service
books/rolls verified and brought up-to-date. The government employees shall
inter-alia ensure before affixing their signature* that their service has been
properly recorded. In the case of a Government servant on Foreign Service
his/her signature shall be obtained in his service books/rolls after the Head
of the Department has made therein necessary entries connected with his foreign
service.
Therefore, the Pension Sanctioning Authority
(PSA) shall update duly obtaining signature of the government employee to the
effect that the entries made in the service book has been verified and found
correct and send it to A.G. (A&E), A.P./
District Audit Officer at least 90
days prior to the date of retirement
of the employee basing on the available information in the Service Register. The existing pension application form prescribed in G.O. 4th read
above and Annexure-I under the G.O. fifth read above,
shall be substituted with Part - 12 namely pension proposals in the revised
S.B. format. The PSA shall send
the proposals to the A.G. (A&E), A.P. three
months in advance of the retirement
of the Government servant along with “No
Dues Certificate”.
iv.
In
the case of long term of loans/advances
like HBA and conveyance advance, the sanctioning authority while sanctioning such long term loans/advances shall ensure that the installments
of principal and interest be fixed in
the manner which will be recovered
(4) months before the retirement of government employee, so as to enable
the Pension Sanctioning
Authority for completing formalities with the
A.G. (A&E), A.P. to get clearance certificate and for processing
the pension papers of before their retirement for settlement
of pensionary benefits on the next day of retirement.
Therefore, the PSA
shall initiate the process of obtaining “No Dues Certificate” in respect of all government dues
like HBA/Conveyance, Government
quarters, over payments of pay and allowances or leave salary,
audit objections, stores/ godowns
shortages/ misappropriations/ embezzlements, advance of leave salary,
advance salary on transfer,
telephone charges and ensure that
these dues be recovered from the government servant and send it
to the A.G. (A&E), A.P. along with
pension papers 90 days in advance, so
as to avoid delay in
settlement of pensionary
benefits on the next day of retirement
and thereby avoiding payment of interest.
v.
Pension Payment Authorities
or Sub
Treasury Officers shall not necessarily
call for personal appearance and
pensioner’s copy of the A.G.s
Pension Payment Order. The Authorization received from the A.G. shall be sufficient and it may be confirmed, if needed from A.G.'s website.
vi.
First time physical verification shall
also be done as in the case
of digital
life certificate and pensionary benefits should be released. Personal appearance may be
insisted only when the retired
employee is unable to digitally authenticate
his
existence.
vii.
For payment of pensionary
benefits for which A.G.’s authorization is not required,
the Pension Sanctioning Authority
shall take action for sanction of leave
encashment 15 days prior to the date of
retirement of employee.
The DDO concerned shall take
action for settlement of APGLI claim
as per the maturity date of policy of
the individual. The Head of the Office/DDO shall verify and update the group insurance entries in
the Service Register six months before retirement and accord sanction orders in the month of retirement.
For this purpose all DDOs/Pension Disbursing Authorities are hereby permitted to prepare the bills relating to
pensionary benefits between 15th and 31st of the month in which
the employee is going to retire
and to instruct all Treasuries
to admit the bills and credit the amounts to the existing salary bank account of the retiring employee
on the next day of retirement.
*Till electronic submission of certificate and digital
signatures are enabled, the employees submit physical certificates which will
be scanned and uploaded.
