To relieve the added suffering of Divyangjan, it has worked out a plan to enhance the family pension emoluments for Divyang children of a deceased government servant/pensioner. Instructions for implementing the plan have already been issued.  

Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh, said the facility, being provided CCS (Pension) Rules 1972, bypasses the income criteria for eligibility for family pension applicable in the case of other family members to provide assistance to child/sibling suffering from a disability.

It is clarified that the Government has reviewed the income criteria for eligibility for family pension in respect of a child/sibling, suffering from a disability and has decided that the income criteria for eligibility for family pension to such children/siblings shall be commensurate with the amount of the entitled family pension in their case.

The Minister said that the Department of Pensions & Pensioners' Welfare has issued instructions/orders that a child/sibling of a deceased Government servant/pensioner, who is suffering from a mental or physical disability, shall be eligible for family pension for life, if his/her overall income, other than the family pension, is less than the entitled family pension at ordinary rate i.e. 30% of the last pay drawn by the deceased Government servant/pensioner plus the Dearness Relief admissible thereon.

As per Rule 54(6) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972, a child/sibling of a deceased Government servant or pensioner, suffering from a mental or physical disability, is eligible for family pension for life if he or she is suffering a disability which renders him unable to earn his livelihood.