Finance Department, Government of Pakistan announces New Special Family Pension Rules on on the recommendations of Pay and Pension Commission-2020-Notification

Government of Pakistan
Finance Division
(Regulations Wing)

F. No. 9(3)R-6/2024-264                                                                  Islamabad, the 10^th September, 2024

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:-                SPECIAL FAMILY PENSION

The undersigned is directed to refer to the subject noted above and to state that, on the recommendations of Pay and Pension Commission-2020, it has been decided that henceforth, Special Family Pension shall be regulated as under:

1. Special Family Pension, after the death or ineligibility of the spouse/first recipient, shall be admissible to remaining entitled family members for 25 years after the death or ineligibility of spouse/first recipient.
2. In case of disabled/Special Children of a pensioner, the Special Family Pension shall remain admissible for life of such children.
3. Rate of such pension for eligible recipients is enhanced to 50% of last drawn pension admissible to the first recipient for all ranks of Armed Forces/Civil Armed Forces without min/max limits and transferable to all eligible heirs as per order prescribed in Rule 12 of Pension Regulations Vol-I (Armed Forces), 2010.

2.         Existing instructions on the subject shall stand amended to the extent of above with immediate effect.

Deputy Secretary(R-III)

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