Defence personnel lined beneath the One Rank One Pension scheme can cherish some excellent news. The Ministry of Defence has revised the pensions as per ranks for all defence pensioners/ household pensioners who had been retired/discharged/invalided out from service/died in service or after retirement. The pension quantities have been hiked from July 1, 2024.
In line with a notification from the ministry, the pensions have been hiked for “all defence pensioners/ household pensioners who had been retired/discharged/invalided out from service/died in service or after retirement within the rank of Commissioned Officers, Honorary Commissioned Officers, JCOs/ORs and Non-Combatants (Enrolled) of Military, Navy, Air Pressure, Defence Safety Corps, Territorial Military & Ex-State Forces and are in receipt of pension/household pension as on 01.07.2024 (besides pensioners retired on or after 01.07.2014 on pre mature retirement/personal request).”
Eligibility and who has been disregarded
> Commissioned Officers
> Honorary Commissioned Officers
> JCOs/ORs and Non-Combatants (Enrolled) of Military, Navy, Air Pressure, Defence Safety Corps, Territorial Military & Ex-State Forces
Who are usually not eligible
> UK/HKSRA/KCIO pensioners
> Pakistan & Burma Military pensioners
> Reservist pensioners
> Pensioners in receipt of Ex-gratia funds
> Pre-mature retirement/personal request pensioners
“This revision received’t be relevant to these like “UK/HKSRA/KCIO pensioners, Pakistan & Burma Military pensioners, Reservist pensioners, pensioners in receipt of Ex-gratia funds and pre mature retirement/personal request pensioners retired on or after 01.07.2014 (as supplied in para 4 of MoD Notification dated 07.11.2015),” the notification mentioned.
Pension quantity
Pension and household pension changes will probably be granted to pensioners and household pensioners who have been already receiving pensions earlier than July 1, 2024. The adjustment will probably be decided as per authorities scale for his or her rank and group within the case of JCOs/ORs. It needs to be famous that pensioners and household pensioners who’re at the moment receiving charges greater than others won’t see a lower of their pension quantity.
The revised charges of pension are the common of minimal and most charges of pension for a rank, group and qualifying service of stay information of 2023 retirees, based on the latter.
The ministry acknowledged: “Wherever the charges of upper qualifying service of a rank are decrease than charges of decrease qualifying service in identical rank or information is/are clean for greater qualifying service then the identical has been protected by a better fee of decrease qualifying service, as a consequence of this many charges in identical column seems equal. Equally, wherever the revised fee of pension beneath this order is decrease in greater rank than the speed in decrease rank in the identical qualifying service then the identical has been protected with greater charges of pension in decrease rank in the identical qualifying service leading to related fee in some qualifying service in two adjoining columns.”
Revised quantities
The charges of retiring pension as per OROP revision for normal commissioned officers and girls officers of the Military, Navy and Air Pressure.
Charges of pension has been indicated from 1/2 years of service as much as Colonel rank and from 20 years of service for Brigadier and above ranks
Charges of pension has been indicated from 1/2 years of service as much as Colonel rank and from 20 years of service for Brigadier and above ranks
