Good news for workers of the Old Pension Scheme! The "Old Pension Scheme" will benefit them, and on November 30th, final orders will be issued

 Good news for workers of the Old Pension Scheme! The "Old Pension Scheme" will benefit them, and on November 30th, final orders will be issued

Workers, Old Pension Plan, OPS 2023: Retired workers have been granted access to the Old Pension Plan in addition to central government personnel and officials. By November 30, orders for this may be placed when the procedure is finished.

Employees at Central were given this choice back in March. Selected All India Service personnel were also granted access to this option in July. Recently, retired workers have also questioned whether they are eligible for this payment. whatever the Central Government has conveyed to the committee. The Government of India's Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances as well as Pensions released an office memo on November 7. It has been told that the authority may use this option to give final orders to the central workers by November 30. Prior to this, a deadline for issuing an order in this matter was October 31.

Deadline extended till November 30.

DoPPW has extended the deadline in response to the appointing authority's request for an extension of the deadline in this respect. DoPPW has extended the deadline for making a decision in this respect to November 30 after taking into account the requests received from different departments. According to the Central Government's decision, employees who worked for the Central Government for advertised or notified posts prior to December 22, 2003, were granted the option to transfer from the new pension plan to the old pension plan under the Central Civil Services Pension Rules 1972. Had gone to.

These workers were told to choose the choice by August 31st. In March 2023, orders were placed for this. But several workers had already retired before the directive arrived at this time. He had recently inquired as to whether, at retirement, he would also have the opportunity to join the previous pension plan. The government also gave them a conditional order to enroll in this programme.

In addition, the Central Government offered the All India Service officers covered by the new pension plan the option to continue with the previous pension plan. On July 13, 2023, the government issued an order. It was said that these All India Service Officers, appointed in opposition to Scheduled Persons prior to the New Pension Scheme's announcement on December 22, 2003. They may sign up for the previous pension plan. Under AIS Rules 1958, officers in service may, in such a case, be offered the choice of the previous pension scheme's provisions after January 1, 2004.

They will need to meet a few requirements, however, in order to do this. Furthermore, they must provide their choice by November 30, 2023. The administration has said unequivocally that this is the last opportunity to provide the choice. In this case, retired workers who were employed by the Central Government, including officers and AIS officers, are also eligible to receive benefits under the previous pension plan. They will have to comply with the terms and conditions in order to do this. On November 30th, orders may be placed for this.