Chandigarh,
May 23, 2016: The Department of Social Welfare,
Women and Child Development organised a function for distribution of Rupay
Cards/ ATM Cards to the pension beneficiaries at Senior Citizen Home, Sector
43-A, Chandigarh today. Hon’ble Member of Parliament, Smt. Kirron Kher, was the
Chief Guest on this occasion and she distributed Rupay Cards/ATM cards to 52
pension holders. The main objective of the department is to provide Social
Security/ financial assistance to widows and old age persons who are without
any means of subsistence. Earlier, old age/ widow/ Disabled pension whose
family income was upto Rs.12,000/- p.a was provided @ Rs. 200 - Rs.500/- p.m.
to those. Now, the rate of all pensions i.e. old age/ widow/ Disabled and
Dependent Children of widows pensions has been increased from Rs. 200 -
Rs.500/- to Rs.1000/- p.m. w.e.f. 01.04.2016. The rate of Disabled pension has
been increased from Rs.500/- to Rs.1000/- p.m. to the persons having disability
from 40% to 70% and Rs.2000/- to the persons having disability more than 70%.
In order to facilitate the distribution of pension
benefit, the department has now introduced distribution of pension through
Rupay Cards/ ATM w.e.f. 01.04.2016 in collaboration with ICICI bank. The
Hon’ble Chief Guest appreciated the efforts done by the department and
effective implementation of the Welfare Schemes. Ms. Nishu Singal, Director
Social Welfare gave vote of thanks to the Chief Guest and all the participants.
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