Pension Rule No.94: Determination Of The Amount Of Family Pension And Gratuity Where Service Records Are Incomplete

94.  Determination Of The Amount Of Family Pension And Gratuity Where Service Records Are Incomplete:-

According to the instruction in vogue on the date of commencement of these rules, there should not be any case where service book has not been maintained properly. If, in any particular case the service book has not been maintained properly despite the Government’s order on the subject, and it is not possible for the Head of Office to accept the unverified portion of service as verified on the basis of entries in the service book, the Head of Office shall not proceed with the verification of the entire spell of service and the verification of service in such a case shall be confined to the following spells of service;

(i)    If the deceased railway servant on the date of death had rendered more than one year of service but less than seven years of service, the service and emoluments for the last year of service shall be verified and accepted by the Head of Office and the amount of family pension 1964 determined under sub-rule (2) and sub-rule (3) of rule 75.

(ii)    If the deceased railway servant on the date of his death had rendered more than seven years of service, the service for the last seven years and emoluments for service rendered in the last year shall be verified and accepted by the Head of Office and the amount of Family Pension 1964 and the period for which it is payable shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (3) of rule 75.

(iii)   If the deceased railway servant on the date of his death had rendered more than seven years of service, the service for the last seven years and emoluments for service rendered in the last year shall be verified and accepted by the Head of Office and the amount of Family Pension 1964 and the period for which it is payable shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (2) and sub-rule (3) of rule 75.

(iv)   The service for the last seven years shall be verified and accepted within the next two months and the amount of family pension at the enhanced rate and the period for which it is payable shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (4) of rule 75.

(v)   The determination of the amount of family pension in accordance with the provisions of sub-clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) shall be done within one month of the receipt of intimation of the date of death of the railway servant.

(b)   For the purpose of death-cum-retirement gratuity:-

(i)    If the deceased railway servant had on the date of his death rendered more than five years of qualifying service but less than twenty four years of qualifying service, and the spell of last five years service has been verified and accepted by the Head of Office under clause (a), the amount of death-cum-retirement gratuity shall be equal to twelve times of his emoluments as indicated in clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of rule 70, where the verified and accepted service is less than five years of qualifying service, the amount of death-cum-retirement gratuity shall be the amount as indicated in item (i) or item (ii) in the Table below clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of rule 70 as the case may be.

(ii)    If the deceased railway servant had rendered more than twenty four years of service and the entire service is not capable of being verified and accepted but the service for the last five years has been verified and accepted, under sub-clause (1), the family of the deceased railway servant shall be allowed, on provisional basis, the death-cum-retirement gratuity equal to twelve times of the emoluments. Final amount of gratuity shall be determined by the Head of Office on the acceptance and verification of the entire spell of service which shall be done by the Head of Office within a period of six months from the date on which the authority for the payment of provisional gratuity was issued. The balance, if any, becoming payable as a result of determination of the final amount of death-cum-retirement gratuity shall then be authorized to the beneficiaries.