51. Sanction of Anticipatory Pension :-
(A) Service Pension:-
1
[In respect of retirement employees, where the payment of pension
has not commenced on the due date after retirement, the Head of Office
concerned, irrespective of the fact whether the pension papers have been
sent to Accountant- General or not] shall draw and disburse anticipatory
pension not exceeding, if the Government servant has put in 33 years of
qualifying service, 2
[4/10]ths or, if the Government servant has put in less
than 33 years of qualifying service, such proportion of 2
[4/10]ths as 33 years
bears to the qualifying service put in by the Government servant, of the last
drawn emoluments which count towards pension and for this purpose adopt
the following procedures namely :-
(a) He shall issue a sanction letter to the Government servant
endorsing a copy thereof to the competent Pension Sanctioning
Authority and the Audit Officer indicating the amount of
anticipatory pension payable to such Government servant on
retirement from service;
(b) After the issue of the sanction letter he shall draw the amount
of anticipatory pension on establishment pay bills and disburse
the amount to the pensioner until such time as the final pension
is released to the pensioner by the Audit Officer;
(c) The competent Pension Sanctioning Authority soon after receipt
of the copy of the sanction accorded by the Head of the Office
concerned, shall issue, under intimation to the Audit Officer, a
confirmatory sanction for payment of anticipatory pension to
the pensioner till the final pension is authorised by the Audit
Officer; (d) The anticipatory pension paid as per sub-clause (a) shall be
adjusted in full from the final pension;
(e) No anticipatory pension shall be admissible in cases where
disciplinary proceedings are in progress under Rule 9 of these
Rules.
1[(B) Family Pension :-The Head of the Office, irrespective of the fact
whether the family pension papers of the family of a
Government servant who died while in service have been sent
to Accountant-General or not shall draw and disburse
anticipatory family pension from the date following the date of
death, at the rate not exceeding 75% of the family pension
admissible under the rules and for this purpose adopt the
following procedure, namely :-]
(a) He shall issue a sanction letter to the family of the deceased
Government servant endorsing a copy thereof to the competent
Pension Sanctioning Authority and the Audit Officer indicating
the amount of anticipatory family pension sanctioned to the
family of the deceased Government servant.
(b) After the issue of the sanction letter he shall draw the family
pension and disburse it to the family until such time the regular
family pension is released by the Audit Officer or the competent
Pension Disbursing Authority as the case may be. The
competent Pension Sanctioning Authority shall, soon after
receipt of the copy of the sanction accorded by the Head of the
Office concerned, shall issue, under intimation to the Audit
Officer, a confirmatory sanction for payment of anticipatory
pension to the family till the final pension is authorised by the
Audit Officer.
(c) The anticipatory family pension shall be adjusted in full from
the family pension.
Note:-1. No allowances shall be admissible on the anticipatory pension
referred to above in this rule.
2. The Head of Department/Head of the Office shall obtain an undertaking from the Pensioner/Family Pensioner that he/she
will refund any amounts found to have been paid in excess of
his/her title in the shape of Anticipatory Pension.
3. 1[The pensioner or family pensioner will have to produce a certificate
from the Head of Office duly countersigned by the Audit authorities i.e., Treasury
Officer 2[Deputy Pay and Accounts Officer / Asst. Pay and Accounts Officer]
if the payment is in a different District it may be got countersigned by the
District Treasury Officer or 2
[Deputy Pay and Accounts Officer who are the
passing authority of claims instead of the Pay & Accounts Officer] showing
whether he/she has drawn any Anticipatory Pension/Family Pension and if
so for what period it has been disbursed. The Head of Office shall stop payment
of the Anticipatory Pension once he issued such certificate.]
4. Sanction of Anticipatory Pension should be recorded in the
service book of the individual concerned under proper
attestation.
3[(C) Sanction of Anticipatory Gratuity
Subject to Rule 52, where there is likely to be delay in releasing the
pensionary benefits due to the pensioner, anticipatory gratuity to the extent of
80% of the amount worked out by the departmental authorities with reference
to the records available and the qualifying service verified, pending verification
and authorisation of the full gratuity by the Accountant-General/Director of
Local Fund Audit, shall be sanctioned and the same shall be drawn and
disbursed after adjusting all the dues known to the department upto the date
of sanction of the Anticipatory Gratuity :
Provided that the amount of Anticipatory Gratuity shall be adjusted in
full from the final retirement gratuity;
Provided further that no anticipatory gratuity shall be sanctioned and
released to the pensioner where departmental or judicial proceedings are
pending or are contemplated against the pensioner until the conclusion of
such proceedings and issue of final orders thereon. 1
[Note. :- The Pensioner/Family Pensioner will have to produce a
certificate from the Head of Office duly countersigned by the Audit Authorities
i.e., Treasury Officer / Pay & Accounts Officer 2
[Deputy Pay and Accounts
Officer / Asst. Pay & Accounts Officer] if the payment is in a different District
it may be got countersigned by the Treasury Officer / Pay & Accounts Officer
2[Deputy Pay Accounts Officer/ Asst. Pay & Accounts Officer] showing
whether he/she has drawn any Anticipatory gratuity.]
Executive Instructions.
(i) Application for anticipatory pension not necessary :-
It is not necessary to apply for anticipatory pension by the pensioner.
The concerned Heads of Offices should take the initiative and sanction
anticipatory pension by taking an undertaking from the pensioner to the effect
that he would refund any amount found to have been paid in excess of his title
in the shape of anticipatory pension.
[Circular Memo No.34708/H/802/Pen.I/83-1, dated 3-11-1983 of Finance
and Planning (FW:Pen.I) Department.]
(ii) Procedure for sanction of anticipatory pension:-
All the pension sanctioning authorities should sanction anticipatory
pension including anticipatory family pension in all cases wherever there is
delay in releasing pensionary benefits and that the fact of sanction of
anticipatory pension should be invariably indicated and where anticipatory
pension is not sanctioned, the reasons therefor should be indicated, in the
forwarding letter while sending the Pension/Family Pension papers to the
Audit Officer. It may be noted that where disciplinary proceedings are pending,
anticipatory pension cannot be sanctioned; but sanction of provisional pension
should be considered in such cases.
[Circular Memo No.10074/762/Pen.I/84-1, dated 12-7-1984 of Finance
and Planning (FW-Pen.I) Department.]