Family pensions: India

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Adopted children

Children adopted after retirement

Ajay Sura, June 17, 2024: The Times of India

Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that there cannot be any discrimination in granting family pension to legally adopted children merely on account of the date of their adoption, reports Ajay Sura.


The court was of the view that children adopted post-retirement cannot be deprived of pensionary benefits.
Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya passed the order while allowing a petition filed by Vikas Kumar, resident of Haryana’s Jhajjar district.


He had sought quashing of a Haryana govt order dated Feb 14, 2019, that rejected his claim for family pension. He had also sought directions to release family pension, effective from Sept 24, 2012, with interest, till attaining 25 years of age.


The petitioner’s father had retired from military service on July 4, 1970, and was released on military pension. Thereafter, he joined Haryana govt on the post of ‘barkandaz’ (guard) on Sept 27, 1971, and was promoted to the rank of ‘daffedar.’ After his superannuation on July 31, 1987, he adopted the petitioner as son on March 1, 2000, but passed away on Jan 26, 2011.
The petitioner claimed family pension from the department, but was not granted it. No reason was cited for it.

Divorced children

Divorced daughter not entitled to pension: HC

The Times of India, November 16, 2015

Ajay Sura

Divorced daughter of freedom fighter not entitled to pension: HC

The Punjab and Haryana HC has held that the divorced unemployed daughter of a freedom fighter would not be entitled to family pension after her parents' death. It said “a divorced woman has an alternative means of sustenance for her life by way of claiming maintenance from ex-husband and is, thus, not exclusively dependent upon the amount of pension of her father as a freedom fighter“.