Pensioners Alert: If you yourself or someone in your family is a pensioner then this news is very important. The Central Government has given a new order to all the pension disbursing banks for the convenience of elderly pensioners. Digital life certificate of pensioners can be created using face verification technology. Let us tell you that all the pensioners have to give their survival certificate every year to get their pension continuously.
Pensioners Life Certificate: If you yourself or someone in your family is a pensioner then this news is very important. The Central Government has given a new order to all the pension disbursing banks for the convenience of elderly pensioners. The government has ordered banks to make arrangements to send ‘doorstep executives’ to sick and hospitalized pensioners to help them submit life certificates. In an order from the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare (DOPPW), it was said that all banks should try to create awareness among super senior pensioners aged 80 years and above about making life certificates digitally.
Life certificate can be made digitally
Digital life certificate of pensioners can be created using face verification technology. Actually, all pensioners have to give proof of their survival every year to get their pension continuously. This is called ‘Life Certificate’. At present there are about 69.76 lakh pensioners of the Central Government. In the year 2019, the Central Government had asked the banks to allow super senior pensioners to give their Life Certificate from October 1 instead of November.
The work will be done sitting at home.
Let us tell you that pensioners below 80 years of age have to give their Life Certificate in November. In the order issued by DOPPW on September 25, it was said that the Digital Life Certificate (DLC), made through face recognition technology, can now be issued by every pensioner from home through smartphone or by visiting the bank branch. Can deposit. According to the order, banks can provide the facility of submitting life certificate by appointing doorstep banking executive.
Banks can instruct their branches to provide this facility to pensioners above 80 years of age from October 1. In this order, banks have been suggested to use different platforms to create awareness about the facility of making digital life certificate. Information about this can also be given through posters on bank branches and ATMs.
